“I’d gone from being a serviceman fighting on the front line, to fighting to put food on the table.” 48-year-old Warren King, from West Yorkshire, served in the RAF for 15 years. A Senior Aircraftman, working in close protection, his ...

We spoke to Warrant Officer Donald Campbell about his childhood in Jamaica, life in the RAF, and his new project which highlights the contributions of British African and Caribbean people to the UK. Warrant Officer Donald Campbell was a Survival Equipment ...

Arriving from Barbados in 1958, Winston Alleyne found England to be a less than welcoming place for a young black man – until an RAF recruitment poster caught his eye. In 1996 he retired from active service as the first black man to reach the rank of Squadron ...