West India Regiments
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The West India Regiments were a group of line infantry regiments of the British Army raised and normally stationed in the British West Indies between 1795 and 1927. In 1888 the two West India Regiment
c. 1803 painting of an 8th West India Regiment private
The 3rd West India Regiment engaging French troops during the 1809 British invasion of the Îles des Saintes
1812 illustration of the 5th West India Regiment
1861 illustration of West India Regiment soldiers in Jamaica
British West Indies Regiment
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The British West Indies Regiment was a unit of the British Army during the First World War, formed of volunteers from British colonies in the West Indies. The regiment was fifteen thousand strong, wit
Soldiers of the British West Indies Regiment on the Albert to Amiens Road, September 1916
Recruitment poster from the Bahamas (1915)
WWI Cenotaph to BWIR at Port Maria, St. Mary Parish, Jamaica
World War I recruiting poster for the "B.W.I.R."