This man was born in 1895 in Lagos and ended up as part of the Polish resistance fighting the Nazis more than 40 years later. He is thought to have been the only black person to join the underground movement.

August Agboola Browne left Lagos in the early 1920s and worked in Europe as part of an entertainment troupe. He arrived in Poland in 1922 where he began to work as a jazz musician, rising to prominence in Warsaw in the 1930s.

From a form he filled out in 1949 to join a veterans' association we learn that he took part in the anti-Nazi resistance in 1939 and worked with the Polish underground in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. He also sheltered Jewish refugees from the ghetto

The Poles surrendered on 2 October 1944 after 200,000 civilians died and much of Warsaw was devastated.

Browne lived on in Warsaw until 1956 when he moved to London with his second wife. He lived a modest existence and did not talk about what had happened to him. He died in 1976 and was buried in Hampstead Cemetery.

Last year, a monument in August Browne's honour was erected in Warsaw. An extraordinary life. Read more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54337607