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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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Died 1917
Other Empire Force 12139 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 12435 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1918
British Army 12537 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
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British Army 12254 Sergeant British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
British Army 12254 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army 47 Acting Serjeant Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army 47 Serjeant Royal Army Medical Corps attached British West Indies Regiment Non European Section attached 9th Battalion
More about Samuel Albert Thomas -
Born 1897
Other Empire Force 11590 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 12669 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Eustace Williams -
Born 1893
British Army 11858 Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 11424 Private Jamaica War Contingent
More about Cyril Boulin -
Born 1880
Other Empire Force 11443 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 12185 Private British West Indies Regiment 6th Battalion
British Army 12185 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
More about James Henry -
Born 1898
Other Empire Force 10992 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 12240 Private British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
More about Theodore Jameison -
Born 1897
Died 1963
British Army Lieutenant British West Indies Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant British West Indies Regiment
More about Ivan Owen Belgrave Shirley -
Died 1917
Other Empire Force 11975 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 11865 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
British Army 11865 Corporal British West Indies Regiment 9th Battalion
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