Alford Gardner, 98, is considered to have been a trailblazer for community relations in Leeds.
Mr Gardner was regarded as a trailblazer, including setting up Britain's first Caribbean cricket club in LeedsJamaica-born Alford Gardner served in the RAF as a motoring mechanic while stationed at Filey in North Yorkshire during World War Two.
Paying tribute to their father in a statement, Mr Gardner's children said his "laughter and larger-than-life personality were infectious". "As both a WW2 veteran and 1948 Windrush passenger, he was a true pioneer, a member of a generation of West Indian men and women to whom the country owes so much. And yet he found it amusing that a barefooted boy with big dreams growing up in rural Jamaica would be celebrated by communities, the nation and Royalty alike.
The HMT Empire Windrush, which docked at Tilbury in Essex, brought 492 passengers to the UK from a number of Caribbean islands, including Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to help fill post-war labour shortages.Paying tribute on X, formerly Twitter, The Jamaica Society Leeds posted that Mr Gardner had been "a proud Jamaican and part of a generation who helped to rebuild postwar Leeds and Britain".
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