A Jamaican centenarian who joined the wartime RAF has been reconnected with the Welsh town where he served over 70 years ago.

George Chung, who celebrated his 100th birthday last October, was posted to RAF Pembroke Dock where the famous Short Sunderland flying boats operated.

Many of Pembroke Dock’s flying boat stories are told in the town’s Heritage Centre and in its archive is a group photograph which includes George. A copy of the photograph, taken in 1944 or 1945, has winged its way to George, thanks to the Internet.

Providing the link to George - who lives in Old Harbour St. Catherine - is his neighbour, Kennedy Singh. Locally George is quite a celebrity and has featured in media stories about his 100th birthday and his ownership of a 50-year-old Morris Oxford car.

Born in 1916, George was a shopkeeper before joining the RAF in 1942. After initial training in Jamaica, he went overseas to the UK and was posted to RAF Pembroke Dock. From there, flying boats, including the Sunderlands, patrolled over the Atlantic protecting Allied merchant shipping and seeking out the German submarines.

George became a leading aircraftsman in charge of stores and has fond memories of his time at ‘PD’, as the station was known in the RAF. He also has never forgotten his RAF number - 714851.

Good wishes have been sent to George from Pembroke Dock and his story is to be featured especially in the Heritage Centre. At ‘PD’, men of many nations served during wartime and the links re-established with George and with his home country are very special for the community.