Remembering the 11th Battalion (9th Jamaica War Contingent - 18 officers and 985 men) of the British West Indies Regiment who sailed from Jamaica on 2 October 1917, stopping in Liverpool 29 October 1917, where both Pte 15720 William Clarke and Pte 15813 Edwin Ebenezer Facey were buried at Anfield. Four others also died during the voyage and are commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial. There were also men from The Bahamas and they arrived in Le Havre, France on 2 November 1917. 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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Died 1918
British Army 15769 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
British Army 12706 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
British Army 15659 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment
British Army 16018 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment
Born 1894
Died 1917
Other Empire Force 12502 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 16075 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1891
British Army 16175 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 14815 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 15605 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army Lieutenant British West Indies Regiment
Born 1892
Died 1918
Other Empire Force 12399 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15668 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
British Army 15567 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 15598 Private British West Indies Regiment