Jamaica – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 6, 2016 CN Editorial Team

‘The Caribbean’s Great War’ – Centenary project remembers West Indian soldiers

The contribution made by Caribbean soldiers to the Allies in the First World War is being given further recognition in a series of initiatives by the West India Committee in the UK.

October 17, 2017 CN Editorial Team

‘Away from the Western Front’ seeks musical recruits for new WW1 song

A newly-composed song, reflecting the bitterness felt by West Indian troops at the end of the Great War, is being added to the familiar repertoire, with an invitation to perform it.

March 13, 2018 CN Editorial Team

New memorial to British West Indies Regiment on Sussex coast

Soldiers from the West Indies who volunteered to serve Britain in WW1 have been commemorated with a Nubian Jak Community Trust blue plaque in Seaford, where their regiment was formed in 1915.