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 1917
British Army 15652 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1894
Died 1917
Other Empire Force 12502 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 16075 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1882
Other Empire Force 10788 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15433 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Other Empire Force 12236 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 16136 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1898
British Army 15546 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1885
British Army 15441 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1893
British Army 15942 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1895
British Army 15304 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1889
Died 1918
British Army 15623 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
Other Empire Force 9416 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15623 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1875
Died 1917
Other Empire Force 11767 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15878 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Died 1917
Other Empire Force 10292 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15398 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1890
Other Empire Force 12454 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15784 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1893
Other Empire Force 11859 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15990 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1890
Other Empire Force 12114 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 15933 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1898
British Army 15709 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1886
British Army 15756 Private British West Indies Regiment
Died 1920
British Army 15399 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1896
Died 1920
British Army 16149 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion
Born 1895
British Army 15755 Private British West Indies Regiment 11th Battalion