April 2008 (aged 107)[1] Animal Hill, Lucea, Jamaica
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British West Indies Regiment
Years of service
1916–1918
Rank
Private
Unit
3rd Battalion
Battles/wars
World War I
Awards
British War Medal
Victory Medal[1]
Charles 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 from the Caribbean to have served in World War I.[2] He enlisted into the labour corps in 1916,[3][4] and was sent from Jamaica to France and Italy as one of more than 15,000 men who volunteered for "The Coloured Regiment".[4][2] At the end of the war, he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.[1] He lived to be 107 years old.[3]
^ abcd"We remember Charles Stanley Stair". Lives of the First World War. Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
^ ab"Last Caribbean veteran of first world war dies at 105". 4 March 2003; updated 11 December 2008. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2022. "George Blackman was not the last surviving Caribbean veteran of the first world war's western front. Stanley Stair of Jamaica, who also served in the British West Indies Regiment, lived until 2008."
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