Originating from Colon, Panama and travelling via Trinidad, West Indies stopping at Plymouth (where 120 men of the British Guiana Militia Contingent of the British West Indies Regiment were landed) arriving in London on 6 September 1915. Between October 1915 and March 1916, Seaford was used as a training camp for the men from the West Indies in preparation for fighting in Europe. Withnoe camp, Whitsand Bay, Plymouth was also an arrival camp. The new arrivals were inadequately clothed for the harsh realities of the British cold in winter and the huts badly insulated. As a result the camps became rife with diseases and men lost their lives totally unnecessarily. 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. Still to find: Trinidad: Norman Carter Rackstraw RNVR, Otto Lancelot Walter, Robert Henry Bunbury, Cecil Irving, Roderick James, Arthur Clive Telfer, Grenada: William ET Harford, Charles Bertram Golding, Panama: Percy John Parsons, St. Lucia: Frances Windsor Pelham Kingdom, Guyana: JWF Douglas, Edward J Dryden, Charles Edward L Cox, RL Lambert BWIR, St. Kitts: Charles Sheppard,
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British Army 103 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1888
Other Empire Force 2194 Private British Guiana Militia
British Army 24 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment
British Army 24 Corporal British West Indies Regiment
Born 1884
Died 1917
British Army S/13717 Private Royal Highlanders
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 24747 Lance Corporal Gloucestershire Regiment 10th Battalion
British Army 229 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 24747 Private Gloucestershire Regiment
British Army 196 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
Born 1887
Died 1943
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army 222 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment
British Army 71 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army 147 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 147 Lance Corporal British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 102 Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
Born 1890
Died 1917
British Army 109 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 126 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion