Lives found in the course of my research* of service men and women from the West Indies, Africa and Asia. They have also been added to the community inspired by the book written by Stephen Bourne. *From December 2018 supplemented by the book 'Black Tommies' British Soldiers of African descent in the first World War written by Ray Costello 2015
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/community/2018
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Born 1894
British Army 44694 Private Dorsetshire Regiment 3rd Battalion
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army PS/3155 Private (Duke Of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment 16th Battalion
British Army 6409 Corporal British West Indies Regiment
British Army 17208 Private Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 6th Battalion
Died 1915
British Army 34120 Private Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
Born 1894
British Army G/40110 Private Royal West Kent Regiment 3rd Battalion
Born 1899
British Army 60503 Rifleman King's Royal Rifle Corps 5th Battalion
British Army M2/152861 Private Army Service Corps Motor Transport
Born 1882
British Army 50572 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army 36400 Private Manchester Regiment
British Army 12749 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 34173 Private Hampshire Regiment
British Army 12730 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1898
Died 1917
British Army 40468 Private City of London Yeomanry
British Army 2867 Private City of London Yeomanry
British Army 40468 Private City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
British Army 48178 Private South Lancashire Regiment
British Army 46760 Private Lincolnshire Regiment 10th Labour Company
British Army 29275 Private 49th Labour Corps
British Army 12740 Private British West Indies Regiment
Born 1888
British Army 18639 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 7th (Service) Battalion
British Army 35888 Sapper Royal Engineers
Royal Navy M16038 Engine Room Artificer Pembroke II
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Born 1880
Died 1917
British Army 202639 Private West Riding Regiment 2nd/5th Battalion
British Army 202639 Private Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) 2/5th Battalion
Born 1884
Died 1938
British Army Private Royal Army Medical Corps
Born 1898
British Army 645916 Private Labour Corps Southern Command