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Hi Arthur, Don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I when I was researching an exhibition for Newham I found a film clip on British Pathe of World War I invalided soldiers being received in Stratford. There's a Black soldier among them and one of the welcoming committee is Kamal Chunchie, who founded the Coloured Men's Institute in Canning Town. Here's the link http://www.britishpathe.com/video/wounded-soldiers-enjoy-mayor-of-west-ham-hospitali/query/west+ham+world+war Kathy Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:40:04 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: CARIBBEAN SOLDIERS IN WWI To: [log in to unmask] Patrick Vernon and I have been working over the past year with the Imperial War Museum to improve its WWI display, and progress is being made. A further meeting is being arranged with officials. Please see links: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-story-of-the-british-west-indies-regiment-in-the-first-world-war http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-west-indies-helped-the-war-effort-in-the-first-world-war We have added, as we discussed, a cigarette case given to soldiers of the British West Indies Regiment in 1916 and also the diary of Arthur Roberts, the black British ‘Tommy’ from Scotland. I am chasing up another couple of items I wrote captions for but annoying contractors have not delivered. The commitment remains though. IWM > >