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Deaths in 1915: British West Indies Regiment
Deaths in 1915: British West Indies Regiment
10 TOTAL // October (1) November (3) December (6) // The regiment was the only one newly created by the King for the Great War and the first arrivals from the West Indies landed in England in September 1915. Men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions died of sickness before they could be deployed in a theatre of war. Seaford, Sussex (9) and Jamaica (1). Seaford was used as a training camp for the men from the West Indies in preparation for fighting in Europe. 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 // complete
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Born 1895
Died 1915
Other Empire Force 308 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 2039 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 488 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1880
Died 1915
British Army 199 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 1385 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 447 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Nathaniel Phillips -
Born 1884
Died 1915
British Army 654 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Charles Jarvis -
Born 1896
Died 1915
Other Empire Force 148 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 2239 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1897
Died 1915
British Army 572 Acting Corporal British West Indies Regiment
British Army 572 Corporal British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about James Lawrence Brown -
Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 2150 Private Jamaica War Contingent
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Born 1895
Died 1915
Other Empire Force 336 Trinidad Light Infantry Volunteers
British Army 1087 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
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