| 翻訳と辞書 |
| David Clemetson ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
David Clemetson
David Louis Clemetson (1 October 1893 - 21 September 1918) was born in Jamaica, into a wealthy family. He was one of the first black people to serve as an officer in the British Army. He was commissioned in the Pembroke Yeomanry in October 1915, and he is thought to have been the only black person to hold the rank of lieutenant in the British Army during the First World War. He was killed in action in France in September 1918.
Another early black officer, Walter Tull, was born in Kent, the son of a black Barbadian carpenter and white Englishwoman; he was commissioned in the Middlesex Regiment on 30 May 1917, and was killed in action on 25 March 1918. A third, George Bemand, was also born in Jamaica, son of a white English father and a black Jamaican mother; he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 23 May 1915, was killed in action on 26 December 1916. Almost a century earlier, Nathaniel Wells served in the Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucestershire and Monmouth in 1820 to 1822, and John Perkins served in the Royal Navy from 1775 to 1804.
==Early life==
Clemetson was born in Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. He was the son of David Robert Clemeston and his wife Mary, of the Frontier Estate sugar plantation (the starting point of the slave rebellion known as Tacky's War in 1760). His grandfather, Robert Clemetson, had been a slave, but he was also the son of his owner; he was freed by his father and inherited the plantation, becoming one of the wealthy elite on the island. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1840.
Clemetson was educated at Potsdam School in Jamaica, and then Clifton College in Bristol, where he served in the Officers' Training Corps. He then studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1912, rowing for the First Trinity Rowing Club's fourth boat (crewed by the rugby team).
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「David Clemetson」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|