West Indian Soldiers in the Great War
…e Allied effort during the First World War. As noted on the Centenary News.com website: “The West India Committee explains that it was ‘at the heart of the British Caribbean’s war effort’. In 1915, it established its own Contingent Committee to coordinate efforts to get men from the region to the front… Some 16,000 men volunteered for the newly-formed British West Indies Regiment. Soldiers from the BWIR served on the Western Front, in the Middle E…