HMT Briton July 1917 British West Indies Regiment (Jamaica)

HMT Briton July 1917 British West Indies Regiment (Jamaica)

Remembering the 9th Battalion (7th Jamaica War Contingent - 22 officers and 851 men) of the British West Indies Regiment who sailed from Jamaica on 20 July 1917 via Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where Pte 12263 James Johnson was buried following his death from pneumonia. The contingent stopped in England on 12 August 1917 and arrived in Boulogne, France 13 August 1917. There were also men from The Bahamas. 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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  • Profile picture for William Waite

    Born 1893

    British Army 12654 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Reginald Black

    British Army 11920 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion

  • British Army 12079 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12161 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 11964 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 11889 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Ernest Stewart

    Died 1919

    British Army 6153 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion

    British Army 6153 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Richard Henry Montague

    Born 1893

    British Army 12325 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12496 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12504 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12007 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12189 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Jonathan Morrison

    Born 1889

    Other Empire Force 12013 Private Jamaica War Contingent

    British Army 12354 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion

  • British Army 12229 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 11919 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12705 Serjeant British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12169 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Ezekiel Blake

    Died 1918

    British Army 11866 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • British Army 12028 Private British West Indies Regiment

  • Profile picture for Wilfred Nathaniel Hall

    Born 1895

    Other Empire Force 300 Private Bahamas Volunteers

    British Army 12230 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion

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