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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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Died 1916
British Army 3629 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Joseph Hutchinson -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 1150 Private British West Indies Regiment
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Nelson N. Fevrier -
Died 1916
British Army 4075 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about James White -
Born 1885
Died 1916
British Army 2430 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Willfred Bergman Christian Williams -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 5002 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
Other Empire Force 3383 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 5002 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about James Samuels -
Born 1896
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 3913 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 4127 Private British West Indies Regiment 4th Battalion
More about Ezekiel Reid -
Died 1916
British Army 2631 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Arthur R Richards -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army 2375 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about Wilfred Robinson -
Died 1916
British Army 842 Private British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Lazarus Emmanuel Louis Francois -
Born 1896
Died 1916
British Army 1745 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Lindsay Theodore Osorio -
Born 1894
Died 1916
British Army 1149 Private British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army Acting Sergeant British West Indies Regiment 1st Battalion
More about Dennis Fevrier -
Died 1916
British Army 6394 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Arthur Gabay -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 2538 Private Jamaica War Contingent
British Army 3518 Private British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion
More about G Jacob Gayle -
Died 1916
Other Empire Force 3150 Private British Guiana Militia
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
More about C Moore -
Born 1892
Died 1916
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 3642 Private Jamaica War Contingent
More about Augustus Reid -
Born 1898
Died 1916
British Army Private British West Indies Regiment
Other Empire Force 4287 Private Jamaica War Contingent
More about Nathaniel Smith -
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 1883
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about Cyril Fitzroy Morgan -
Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 1813 Serjeant British West Indies Regiment attached Royal Engineers 2nd Battalion attached Inland Water Transport
More about Gerald Eric Price Usher -
Born 1897
Died 1916
British Army 6396 Private British West Indies Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Basil Anthony Da Costa Hind