Collection items

Illustrations of West India Regiment soldiers in u...

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 of soldiers pitching tents and preparin...

Photograph, Image, Album

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

Photograph of three white British officers from th...

Photograph, Image

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

Photographs of West India Regiment soldiers in Sie...

Photograph, Image, Album

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

Racist caricature in a children's alphabet book: '...

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 into the state of a colony for liberated sl...

Report

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

The History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Ind...

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...