Collection items

Image, Aquatint

These images are taken from Charles Hamilton Smith's Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, According to the Last R...

Photograph, Image, Album

This photograph is of West India Regiment soldiers preparing their camp. Major General Charles Howard Foulkes (1875–1969...

Photograph, Image Created date: 1860–1880

This photograph is of three white British officers from the 1st West India Regiment, which played an important role in p...

Photograph, Image, Album

These photographs are of West India Regiment soldiers in Sierra Leone celebrating on Christmas Day. Major General Charle...

Image, Illustration, Children's book

The ‘King’ who was militarily defeated was Kofi Karikari – known as ‘King Coffee’ by the British’ – ruler of the Ashanti...

Report

West India Regiment soldiers who were no longer needed by the British Army, or who were too old or injured, were retired...

Book

Bryan Edwards was born in Britain but lived much of his life in the colony of Jamaica, where he was a planter with sever...

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