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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  • Profile picture for Aloysius Pedro Ferreira

    Born 1888

    British Army 1033 Lance Corporal British West Indies Regiment 5th (Service) Battalion

    British Army 1033 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Samuel Lewis

    Born 1894

    British Army 6155 Private West India Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Edward John Blake, Msm

    Born 1877

    British Army 6655 Company Serjeant Major West India Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army 5073 Company Quarter Master Sergeant Duke Of Cornwall's Light Infantry

  • Profile picture for Hubert Blackwood

    Born 1888

    British Army 5035 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion

  • Profile picture for George Washington Bailey

    Born 1889

    Died 1921

    British Army 2147 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army 2147 Lance Sergeant British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army 2147 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Clifton Forde

    Born 1881

    British Army 3206 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for John Lewis

    Born 1886

    Died 1917

    British Army 4893 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion

  • Profile picture for William Henry Mullings

    Born 1891

    Died 1920

    British Army 5585 Private West India Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Higgins Irving Husbands

    Born 1885

    Other Empire Force 517 Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers 3rd Battalion

    British Army 1427 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Cadogan Pollard

    Born 1874

    Died 1956

    British Army 1270 Private West India Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army 2587 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

    British Army 2587 Corporal British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Profile picture for Nathaniel Saunders

    Born 1884

    Other Empire Force 7263 Private Jamaica War Contingent

    British Army 8209 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion

    British Army 8209 Private British West Indies Regiment 6th Battalion