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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 1887
Died 1918
British Army 5046 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 2394 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Died 1917
British Army 4914 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Samuel Morris -
Died 1916
British Army 3515 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army Lieutenant British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Christopher Revell -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 4914 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 6393 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Hugh Bell -
Died 1917
British Army 9629 Private British West Indies Regiment 6th Battalion
More about Charles Scarlett -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 2933 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4098 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Edward T Dyce -
Died 1916
British Army 6394 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Arthur Gabay -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 6396 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Basil Anthony Da Costa Hind -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 6398 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1915
British Army 572 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment
British Army 572 Corporal British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about James Lawrence Brown -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 4166 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Wilfred Hamilton -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 1150 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Nelson N. Fevrier -
Died 1919
British Army 3078 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
British Army 3078 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about John B Hinds -
Born 1894
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 3230 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4328 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Felix Johnson Johnson -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 4249 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Zedekiah Adams -
Born 1893
Died 1919
British Army 10204 Private British West Indies Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Nehemiah Josephs -
Born 1895
Died 1915
Other Empire Force 336 Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers
British Army 1087 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Inkerman Romney -
Died 1917
British Army 10232 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Arnold Kelly