Laurent Lloyd Phillpotts (30 August 1922 – 11 January 2016) joined the RAF in 1943 after an appeal by

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''The Independent''. 8 November 2003. Retrieved 20 February 2017. He helped set up ''The West Indian Association of Service Personnel'', formerly named ''The West Indian ex-Servicemen's Association''.
''The Telegraph''. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017. In 1956, Laurent Phillpotts launched the first black weekly newspaper ''Colonial News''. He campaigned for the erection of the Memorial Gates in London, commemorating British forces' black Commonwealth servicemen and women from two World Wars. With others he pioneered the ''Association of Jamaicans'', the ''Caribbean Centre'' and the ''West Indian Carib Cricket Club''.

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