Francois Darné was an eminent surgeon in Mauritius and, as a former ambassador to France, a renowned diplomat. During the war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London and also gave lectures in anatomy at the University of Cambridge and at UCL, where he was the first Mauritian to be appoi

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Ki

Sir Miles Clifford was born in 1897 and, after a private education and military service in France and Flanders during the first world war, entered the Colonial Service and was appointed to the administration service in Nigeria. In the early years of the second world war he commanded the Nigerian Eur