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Heritage stories Ilene Chigwende Nurse, NHS · arrived from the Caribbean, 1961 Would you like this read to you? Just press play below. When Britain faced a shortage of nurses after the Second World War, recruitment campaigns extended across the Commonwealth. Thousands of young men and women from the Caribbean answered the call. They left…

Heritage stories Gurnella Becket Nurse, NHS · arrived from the Caribbean, 1961 Would you like this read to you? Just press play below. Gurnella Beckett was born on the 27th of May 1940 in Saint Thomas, Jamaica, the youngest of seven siblings — four sisters and three brothers — in a close-knit Christian family. Raised…