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Deaths in 1916: British West Indies Regiment
Deaths in 1916: British West Indies Regiment
186 TOTAL // January (14) February (11) March (32) April (14) May (8) June (8) July (23) August (14) September (16) October (19) November (16) December (11) // Includes Deaths at sea (20) // The largest number died at hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt (60) and Seaford, Sussex (10) Plymouth, Devon (23) Men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions who died of sickness before deployment in a theatre of war. 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 // Plus Candidates for the In From the Cold Project (1) found during the course of my research using the IWM Lives of the First World War archive, who qualify for commemoration provided they died within the dates for the First World War - 4th August 1914 to 31st August 1921. There is hopefully sufficient information to get these men remembered by headstones or being added to memorials across the Caribbean // incomplete
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Born 1889
Died 1918
Other Empire Force 3718 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 3851 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Enos Anderson -
Born 1890
Died 1916
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 3882 Private Jamaica War Contingent
More about James H Smith -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 580 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Fitz-Albert Cains -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 1745 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Lindsay Theodore Osorio -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 1500 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 3563 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about James Richardson -
Died 1916
British Army 5326 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Camille Alex Smith -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 1698 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Reginald Hubert Laing -
Died 1916
British Army 385 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about George H Jacobs -
Died 1916
British Army 2631 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Arthur R Richards -
Born 1891
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 2131 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 2988 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
British Army 2988 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Edwin J Tyne -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 3493 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4486 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Isaiah Handlon -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 2688 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4720 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about James E Barrett -
Died 1916
British Army 1590 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Samuel Alexander Cadle -
Born 1882
Died 1916
British Army 3524 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Alexander Williams -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 4716 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 6405 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Isaac Riley -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 4717 Private Jamaica War Contingent
More about Felix Reid -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 2529 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Robert A Mitchell -
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army 1534 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army 1534 Lance Corporal British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Benjamin Albert Van Gronigen -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army 2375 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Wilfred Robinson -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 191 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Vincent Geoffrey Pereira