![]() ![]() Service of ethnic personnel in the Armed Forces of the British Crown can be traced back several centuries. Today, the Ministry of Defence and in the Armed Forces, are providing opportunities for people from all sections of the community, and all ethnic origins to join, and to rise within the organisation purely on merit. Others worked in the essential support services, such as medicine, logistics, transport and labour. The men and women from these countries served in theatres of war throughout the world, many in the front-line, working as infantrymen, pilots and seamen. However far fewer of us know about the contribution made by military and civilian personnel from other parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth particularly those from Africa, the Indian sub-continent, the rest of Asia (including Hong Kong) and the West Indies ![]() West Indian troops stacking eight-inch shells at a dump on the Gordon Road, Ypres, October 1917.
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