ALFORD GARDNER b1926
Alford Gardner b 1926 (on the right with childhood friend Dennis Reed) and his brother Gladstone (c. 1924 – 2005) followed in their father’s footsteps who fought in WW1. The brothers went home to Jamaica after demob, returning on MV Windrush in 1948 along with 5 other West Indians heading for Leeds. Alford settled in Leeds and in 2020 is one of the city’s two surviving Jamaican WW2 veterans.
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