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RMS Orotava Nov 1914 Citizens' Contingent Trinidad
RMS Orotava Nov 1914 Citizens' Contingent Trinidad
Men eager to serve paid for their own passage before the Contingent committee was formed in 1915. Travelling from Trinidad, West Indies arriving in London on 9 November 1914. There was also a medical practitioner who returned home with his family to enlist with the RAMC. Still to find: Kenneth Gordon, Walter St. Clair Robinson, Walter Edward Moore, Norman McLeod.
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British Army 106094 Private Machine Gun Corps
British Army 3205 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps
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Born 1894
Other Empire Force Trinidad Motorcycle Corps
British Army 4793 Trooper Machine Gun Regiment of Foot Guards 2nd Battalion
British Army 3203 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
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More about Joseph Louis Sellier -
Born 1873
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
Air Force (RAF/RFC) Captain Royal Air Force
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Born 1893
Other Empire Force Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers
British Army 4344 Guards Machine Gun Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army 3200 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
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Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army 3201 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
British Army 3201 Trooper Life Guards 2nd Battalion
More about Alfred Bourne -
Born 1892
British Army 1203 Private King Edward's Horse
British Army 246398 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army 22985 Private Machine Gun Corps
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Born 1895
British Army 3204 Sapper Life Guards
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 321537 Sapper Royal Air Force
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Born 1890
Died 1934
British Army 3235 Trooper 2nd Life Guards
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