For many, the story of the Windrush generation begins 75 years ago at Tilbury docks in Essex with passengers from the Caribbean arriving to help post-war Britain.
But the contribution of these brave men and women had already begun years before staffing the NHS and running public transport.
Contributions and sacrifices that Eddy Smythe, the son of John Henry Smythe MBE, an RAF navigator during WW2 and senior officer on board Empire Windrush says were “written out” of history.
