British West Indies Regiment information

the West Indies. In 1915 the British Army formed a second West Indies regiment from Caribbean volunteers who had made their way to Britain. Initially...

The West India Regiments (WIR) were infantry units of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean...

The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat...

The West Indies Federation, also known as the West Indies, the Federation of the West Indies or the West Indian Federation, was a short-lived political...

education, at 17 he became a volunteer in the British West Indies Regiment in World War I, serving in the British Army from 1914 to 1918, stationed in Egypt...

was captured intact. The 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment, reinforced by the 3rd Light Horse Regiment (1st Light Horse Brigade), captured the...

which historically formed the British West Indies. It consists of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada...

known Guyanese First World War veteran. He served in the 1st British West Indies Regiment and fought on the Western Front during the war. He died on 6...

The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with the East Yorkshire...

Stanley Stair (20 October 1900 – April 2008) was a soldier in the British West Indies Regiment, who was at the time of his death the last surviving veteran...

Samuel Haynes (1899 - 1971) was a Belizean soldier, activist and poet best known for writing the national anthem of Belize, Land of the Free. He was a...

forming a new West Indian regiment, but those who made their own way to the UK were able to enlist in the British Army. Nearly 10,000 British West Indians travelled...

Infantry 1st Battalion British West Indies Regiment 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment 3rd Battalion British West Indies Regiment Signal Service 2nd...

The West Indian Brigade was a British Army unit during World War I. In 1915, a second West Indies regiment was formed from Caribbean volunteers who made...

subsequently made a captain with the British West Indies Regiment, leaving for the front in 1917. Impressed by how the West Indians adapted to the business...

The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 to...

actions against the French and Spanish in the West Indies and other theatres. Of the British Army regiments raised during the war, primarily for military...

crippled the whole British Army through disease, especially yellow fever. Out of 89,000 British soldiers who served in the West Indies, 43,747 died of yellow...

September with the Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiment as vanguard, followed by the 1st Battalion British West Indies Regiment, which dumped their kits and blankets...

"Plaque to honour the West Indies fallen", Eastbourne Herald, 12 November 2015. "Blue Plaque Unveiling for the British West Indies Regiment", Haven News, 2...

Many Jamaicans fought for Britain in World War I, with the British West Indies Regiment recruiting solely from the British overseas colonies in the Caribbean...

1950s, referring to the Black British West Indian people from the former Caribbean British colonies in the West Indies (i.e., the New Commonwealth) sometimes...