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United Kingdom burials and memorials: WIR and BWIR
United Kingdom burials and memorials: WIR and BWIR
The majority of burials are at Seaford, Sussex (19) and Plymouth, Efford Cemetery (13), Weston Mill Cemetery (17) with the remainder in Liverpool and London. Between October 1915 and March 1916, Seaford was used as a training camp for the British West Indies Regiment in preparation for fighting in Europe. Withnoe camp, Whitsand Bay, Plymouth was also an arrival camp. The new arrivals were inadequately clothed for the harsh realities of the British cold in winter and the huts badly insulated. As a result the camps became rife with diseases and men lost their lives totally unnecessarily // Those who died at sea (58) are remembered by the Hollybrook Memorial in Hampshire // complete
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Born 1893
Died 1919
British Army 1460 Private British West Indies Regiment
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Born 1890
Died 1920
British Army 3895 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
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Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army 2004 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Clarence Algernon Lochart Mais -
Died 1916
British Army 2947 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about James Broughton -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 4630 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 6403 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Nehemiah Allen -
Born 1896
Died 1915
Other Empire Force 148 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 2239 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Harold Constantine Grubb -
Born 1878
Died 1919
British Army 3585 Private West India Regiment
British Army 3585 Lance Corporal West India Regiment
More about Joseph Arnold Francis -
Born 1876
Died 1919
British Army 997 Private King Edward's Horse
British Army 4959 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Henry Belton Owen -
Born 1884
Died 1916
British Army 2271 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Thomas Johnson -
Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 4893 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about John Lewis -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 3913 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4127 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Ezekiel Reid -
Died 1918
British Army 15646 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
More about James Pryce -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 2792 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Roland Aristarchus Gilling -
Died 1917
British Army 4895 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Cephas Phillips -
Died 1919
British Army 8932 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Thomas Clarke -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 4945 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 6400 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Stephen Stewart -
Born 1897
Died 1919
British Army 2776 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Cyril A Anderson -
Born 1891
Died 1916
British Army 3717 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Wilfred Baker -
Born 1888
Died 1918
British Army 5780 Private West India Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Abraham Graham -
Born 1890
Died 1916
British Army 3516 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Thomas Joseph Whittaker