About Laurent Phillpotts
Lived 1922 – 2016 (aged 93). Laurent Phillpotts was a British military personnel.
Laurent Lloyd Phillpotts (30 August 1922 – 11 January 2016) joined the RAF in 1943 after an appeal by King George VI.
He helped set up The West Indian Association of Service Personnel, formerly named The West Indian ex-Servicemen's Association.
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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British military personnel
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Laurent Phillpotts was born on 30 August 1922.
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Laurent Phillpotts died on 11 January 2016.
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Laurent Phillpotts was a military personnel.
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Laurent Phillpotts was British.
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