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From: "Dorothy Kew" <>
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] Re: British West Indian Regiment
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 06:56:20 -0400


I'm a bit puzzled by the comment that "The British War Department had a
policy of not using colonials against Europeans (whites) until WWII." Is
there any published reference for this Jacob P. M. Andrade, in his book "A
Record of the Jews of Jamaica, from the English conquest to the present
time" (Kingston: Jamaica Times, 1941), lists some of the Jews who served
with different regiments, including the B.W.I.R., in World War I, in
Palestine, German East Africa, and France, against the Germans. (pp.
270-277).

Furthermore, there is Frank Cundall's book on the British West India
Regiment in World War I, "Jamaica's Part in the Great War, 1914-1918"
(London: West Indies Committee, 1925). And Madeleine Mitchell, in her book,
"Jamaican Ancestry", also refers to the West India Regiments which fought in
WWI.


Dorothy

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bond <>
To: <>
Date: September 1, 1999 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] Re: British West Indian Regiment


The British War Department had a policy of not using colonials against
Europeans (whites) until WWII. That they were not soldiers in the Boer
War under those circumstances does not mean they weren't there. There
were besides Pres. Barclay of Liberia other soldiers who remained in
West Africa after srving in the BWIR bringing over their wives or
marrying locally. Mrs Barclay was a black South African.They were
important in introducing many items in trade to the indigenous. The West
Indian traders were also discriminated against in terms of credit by the
British mercantile houses who favored the Greeks and Lebanese.


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