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Service records of the West Indies Regiments: WIR and BWIR
Service records of the West Indies Regiments: WIR and BWIR
Collecting those servicemen of West India Regiment and British West Indies Regiment who have service (pension) records. A great many relate to the men of the 4th Battalion (3rd Jamaica War Contingent) of the British West Indies Regiment who sailed on HMT Verdala on 6 March 1916 under sealed orders, arriving at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in the middle of a blizzard.
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Born 1897
British Army 4178 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Uriah Nelson -
Born 1886
Other Empire Force 11471 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 12670 Sergeant British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Allan Herbert Wilson -
Born 1880
British Army 5976 Private West India Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Alfred Moncrieffe -
Born 1894
British Army 5957 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Fredey Wilmoth Thompson -
Born 1894
Other Empire Force 3413 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4815 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Zachariah Willie -
Born 1880
Other Empire Force 253 Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers
British Army 612 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Matthew Walter Fox -
Born 1893
British Army 10592 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Henry Smith -
Born 1892
British Army 3678 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about David Samuel Satchwell -
Born 1889
British Army 4530 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Stephen Brown -
Born 1897
British Army 8563 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Phillip Nathaniel Waite -
Born 1896
British Army Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 1st/5th Battalion
British Army 9225 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
British Army 678665 Acting Serjeant Labour Corps 903rd Labour Employment Company
More about Allan Gray Whyte -
Born 1892
Died 1920
British Army 7050 Private West India Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Simeon Wright -
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Born 1891
Other Empire Force 3667 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4148 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Reuben Emanuel Campbell -
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Born 1896
British Army 4104 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Arthur Forth -
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Born 1891
British Army 6276 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about Leonard Henry -
Born 1896
Died 1919
British Army 11578 Private British West Indies Regiment
More about David Roachford -
Born 1888
Other Empire Force 2194 Private British Guiana Militia
British Army 24 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment
British Army 24 Corporal British West Indies Regiment
More about Cyril Herbert Brumell