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RMS Berbice Oct 1915 British West Indies Regiment (Trinidad)
RMS Berbice Oct 1915 British West Indies Regiment (Trinidad)
Remembering a contingent (3 officers, 204 men) of the British West Indies Regiment travelling from Trinidad on 2 October 1915 and arriving at Plymouth on 8 November 1915. There were men from Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, St. Kitts & Nevis and St. Lucia, and they were assigned to either the 1st or 2nd Battalion upon arrival at Seaford. 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. The 2nd Battalion transferred to Alexandria, Egypt on 9 February, arriving 21 February 1916. 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. Please add family histories if you can and spread the word to others so that they can be commemorated properly. To find: Lieut AJ Ferguson
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Born 1892
British Army 1232 Private British West Indies Regiment
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British Army 1125 Acting Serjeant British West Indies Regiment
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Born 1891
British Army 1151 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
British Army 1277 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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British Army 1091 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
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Born 1888
British Army 1104 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1898
Other Empire Force 40 St. Lucia Volunteers
British Army 1203 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
British Army 1203 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1894
British Army 1134 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1893
British Army 1098 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army 1098 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
British Army 1098 Private British West Indies Regiment
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British Army 1112 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1897
British Army 1233 Private British West Indies Regiment
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Born 1894
British Army 1181 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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British Army 1237 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1893
British Army 1280 Private British West Indies Regiment
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Born 1895
British Army 1140 Serjeant British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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British Army 1185 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army 1185 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
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Born 1895
Died 1920
British Army 1247 Private British West Indies Regiment
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Born 1896
British Army 1102 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
British Army 1102 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 1102 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1896
Died 1976
British Army 1139 Private British West Indies Regiment
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