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Jean Agatha Forde
Jean Agatha Forde was born on the 22nd September 1942 at Triopaths in St. Andrew, Barbados. War was raging in Europe and the Pacific, but they were not affected by this. She grew up in a safe and hardworking environment. Very little food was imported into the island, and what was would not have reached her…
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Remembering those that served during WWI, WWII and later conflicts
Remembrance Sunday is the: second Sunday in November. This year it is Sunday 9th November 2025. This Remembrance Sunday, we honour the service and sacrifice of the men and women of the Commonwealth who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Merchant Navy, and Emergency Services during the First and Second World Wars and in later…
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W/O Derek Davies – A Bajan Specialist Gunner with 224 Squadron RAF Coastal Command
Derek Sewell Blackburn Davies joined the RAF on 3rd September 1942, serving for nine months in the RAF regiment. He received aircrew training as a specialist air gunner receiving his wing in April 1944 and was then posted to 224 Squadron, RAF Coastal Command joining the crew of F/L Merrington flying in B-24 Liberators hunting…
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Barbados Blackwood Screwdock (dry dock)
In July 2025 PM Mia Mottley launched the Bridgetown Pierhead Project, a waterfront development project aimed at breathing new life into historic Bridgetown. Pierhead then (early 1960s) and now (2025) pre revitalisation. This new Pierhead development incorporates what used to be the Blackwood screwdock – which was a marvel of Victorian engineering. Like the HARP…
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Searching for the names of Bajan RAF Ground Crew in WWII
This is a call for help. For over 40 years, Audrey Dewjee in the UK has dedicated herself to uncovering and preserving the history of West Indian men who joined the Royal Air Force as ground crew. Believing that their contributions had been largely overlooked, she took it upon herself to ensure they would not…
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Remembering V-E Day 1945
The 8th May 2025 is the 80th Anniversary of V‑E Day (Victory in Europe). V‑E Day is a pivotal moment in history marking the end of World War II in Europe in 1945 when the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The Russians celebrate Victory Day (День Победы) on 9th May. V‑E Day signified an end to…
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A BajanThings 101 follow-up on AI Chatbots in 2025: ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok & Claude. Why you MUST fact check the output…
Back in 2023 we published: A BajanThings 101 on AI Chatbots: ChatGPT and Bard. Why you MUST fact check the output… Two years on in March 2025 and in June 2025 we have updated our AI chatbot experiment. The reference research source we used to compare the AI output was the work we had done…
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F/O Robert Allen “Shorty” Stewart RAAF 1919 to 2004
This is the fourth in the series of BajanThings posts that profile Errol Walton Barrow’s crew in RAF 88 Squadron, “B” Flight, Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF) during World War II. That crew consisted of: English pilot Andrew Leslie Cole and two Australian rear Wireless operator and Air Gunners (WAGs): Leo Leslie Schultz and Robert…
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Aircraft losses Pont-Saint-Martin during World War II – Remembering P/O George Inniss and the crew of Hampden AD750 from RAF 106 Squadron
In France the 8th May is la fête de la Victoire 1945, le jour de la libération. It is a national holiday when those that gave their lives fighting for the freedom of France are remembered. The date celebrates the announcement of the end of World War II by Gen. Charles de Gaulle on 8th…
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F/L Fredrick Edsall Clarke RCAF 414 Army Cooperation Squadron 1917 – 2005
This is the story of Fred Clarke Jr. (known as Freddy / “Knobby” in the RCAF) who was born in 1917 in West Byfleet in Surrey, England while his Bajan father Maj. Frederick C Clarke MD MC 1883 – 1941 was serving in France with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) during World War I. After…
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Category: Barbados during World War I and World War II
Stories about Barbados during the war years 1914 to 1945.