Remembering the 10th Battalion (8th Jamaica War Contingent - 31 officers and 1304 men plus men from Antigua, The Bahamas and St. Kitts), of the British West Indies Regiment commanded by Lieut. Colonel Charles Willmore Long, who sailed from Jamaica on 26 August, via Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada arriving in Le Havre, France on 18 September 1917. From the middle of January 1918 the battalion was stationed at Taranto, Italy. All of the men were volunteers. For those who died extra information has been collected from the Soldiers' Effects records, but for lots of these men there are only medal records because they managed to survive; (the medal rolls are however split by island and show their original battalion). So they sailed from home, served in the war and then sailed home again, with the regiment not invited to the Peace (Victory) Parade held in London July 1919 // incomplete.
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British Army 14566 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 14515 Corporal British West Indies Regiment
Born 1888
British Army 13912 Private British West Indies Regiment 8th Battalion
British Army 13912 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
Died 1918
British Army 14828 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army 14828 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
British Army 13658 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
Born 1889
Died 1918
Other Empire Force 10261 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 14386 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion
Born 1886
Other Empire Force 10592 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 14313 Private British West Indies Regiment 10th Battalion