Alfred Mendes
Videos
Alfred Hubert Mendes MM was a Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer. He was a leading member of the 1930s "Beacon group" of writers in Trinidad and Tobago which included Albert Gomes, C. L. R. J
Mendes as a teenager during World War I
The Rifle Brigade was a rifle regiment of the British Army raised on 17 January 1800 as the Experimental Corps of Riflemen to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers. They were renamed the Rifl
Alfred Mendes
…and transport to Britain young men who wished to serve in the war "for King and Country" — and sailed back to the United Kingdom. He served in the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, and fought for two years in Flanders along the Belgian Front and was awarded a Military Medal for distinguishing himself on the battlefield. Towards…
Cap badge of the Rifle Brigade
Coote Manningham (first from left), the co-founder of the regiment
c. 1803 illustration of a regimental rifleman
Illustration of a regimental soldier (right) in 1812