A Bristol schoolboy who went on to become the first Black Queen’s Guardsman has written a book about his horrendous experiences and how he overcame them. And now Richard Stokes is launching the book in his home city, with an event on Monday evening.
Richard Stokes went from what is now Cotham School to the Grenadier Guards at just 16 years old back in 1988. But from the very first moment he passed out as a guard and entered his barracks in Northern Ireland at the age of 17, he was subjected to vicious racist bullying.
Within three years he was out of the Army, had joined the Navy and his case was being raised in parliament.
