Brill
Cheers
--
Angela Allison, Coventry UK
---- Leslie James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Angela,
>
> There are a number of references to this in Jamaican newspapers from the
> time. The British Library has The Vanguard from 1940, which contains
> several articles. I have notes to one of the articles, see below. The
> article is by George Padmore, the paper's London Correspondent and
> spends abit of time admonishing Harold Moody. But it does confirm that
> he was the first to overturn the colour bar in WWII.
>
> Best,
>
> Leslie
>
> "Negro Training As Britain Army Officer" Our London Correspondent, The
> Vanguard 30 Mar 1940.
> - Man is son of Harold Moody, native of Jamaica.
> - Moody approached MacDonald, Secretary of State for Colonies at
> beginning of war, but declared officers must be 'of pure Eur descent'.
> Moody then approached Creech Jones, Labour MP for Shipley, who raised in
> House of Commons and afterwards Colonial Office in consultation with War
> Office agreed to permit coloured colonials already living in England
> permission.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Black and Asian Studies Association
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angela Allison
> Sent: 17 October 2011 18:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 'coloured candidates' WWII Officers
>
> I'm hoping to find earlier refs. Charles Arundel Moody, Dr Harold's
> Moody son, in 1940, became an officer in the British Army (Royal West
> Kent), later rising to the rank of colonel. According to the October
> 2011 BBC documentary 'Mixed Britannia' pt 2: 1940-1945, Moody is
> credited with overturning the colour bar re. the military, during WWII.
>
> --
> Angela Allison, Coventry UK
>
> "I know the one thing we did right,
> was the day we started to fight.
> Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on!"
>
> ---- Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > While looking for info on WWI, I found this among my notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > From The Times, 5/6/1948, p.8, report from House of Commons:
> >
> > 'Coloured candidates will in future be able to join the Royal Navy and
>
> > the Army on the same conmditions as the Royal Air Force.'
> >
> >
> >
> > I did not look at the full report in Hansard. The RAF had been forced
> > into accepting Black crew during WWII, even at officer level, because
> > of the shortage of qualified men.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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