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My Black Poppies and Tommies
My Black Poppies and Tommies
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
Died 1919
British Army 61067 Private Leicestershire Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Hubert B Pinder -
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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More about John Self Elliott -
British Army SS/8623 Private Army Service Corps
British Army 305387 Private Labour Corps
British Army 12732 Private British West Indies Regiment
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More about Thomas Phipps -
Born 1893
British Army 3768 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
British Army 12270 Private Army Cyclist Corps
More about Lionel Lamy -
Born 1885
British Army 76066 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Reserve Garrison Battalion
More about George Barrow -
Born 1879
British Army 179370 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery
More about Alfred Lassalle -
Born 1892
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 138511 Canadian Infantry 75th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 138511 Company Sergeant Major Canadian Infantry 75th Battalion
More about Hugh Alfred Langley -
Born 1888
British Army 24759 Rifleman Royal Irish Rifles 3rd Battalion
More about Joseph Nurse -
Born 1893
British Army 62850 Private Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 3rd Battalion
More about Jasper Howell -
Born 1886
British Army WR/339033 Pioneer Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport
More about Agard Austin Prescod -
Born 1895
Died 1916
British Army 5488 Private Liverpool Regiment
British Army 307589 Private King's (Liverpool Regiment) 4th Battalion
British Army 307589 Private The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/8th Battalion
More about Walter Colebourne, Or Colebourn -
Born 1878
British Army 68281 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 3rd Battalion
More about Martin Coombs -
Born 1889
British Army 3741 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about John Henry Bunyan -
British Army 17289 Private Northumberland Fusiliers 2nd Battalion
More about Eldridge Eastman -
Born 1890
British Army 62849 Private Scottish Rifles 3rd Battalion
More about Joseph Linton -
Born 1887
British Army 63555 Private York and Lancaster Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Reuben Adolphus Greaves -
Born 1895
British Army 46536 Private King's Own Scottish Borderers
More about Robert Campbell Goodman -
Born 1894
British Army G/40110 Private Royal West Kent Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Joseph Hendrickson -
Born 1874
Died 1953
British Army 127133 Pioneer Royal Engineers Signal Company
British Army 127133 Sapper Royal Engineers Signal Company
More about John Edward Parris -
Born 1874
Died 1918
British Army 4952 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
British Army Royal Defence Corps
More about Henry L Boyce