At Home Dad Posted 20 April , 2008 Share Posted 20 April , 2008 Hallo all, in an effort to perhaps pique some interest from Working Mum re:The Great War, I wonder if anyone has information regarding volunteers or forces from the island Commonwealth of Dominica? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 20 April , 2008 Share Posted 20 April , 2008 Dad Men from the Island of Dominica are likely to have enlisted in the West India Regiment. See: http://www.westindiaregiment.org/index.htm Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 20 April , 2008 Share Posted 20 April , 2008 A few Mercantile Marine men and some 2nd Battalion British West Indies Regiment. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 20 April , 2008 Share Posted 20 April , 2008 Dominicans did serve in WW1, and there is a war memorial in Victoria St, Roseau. As has already been mentioned, most joined the British West Indies Regiment, although some UK born men were commissioned into other regiments and corps. I spent a few months there in the early 1980's. Terry Reeves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
At Home Dad Posted 20 April , 2008 Author Share Posted 20 April , 2008 many thanks, all Dave - sadly, I got a VBS/Psyme trojan virus warning when I went on that link Terry - We hope to get out there later in the year, so I'll look up the memorial and take some pics Kind regards Hallo all, in an effort to perhaps pique some interest from Working Mum re:The Great War, I wonder if anyone has information regarding volunteers or forces from the island Commonwealth of Dominica? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esskay Posted 21 April , 2008 Share Posted 21 April , 2008 If you head to Geoff's Amazing Search Engine - http://www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search2.php and put Dominica into the "including" box it will bring up 7 fellows for you to have a look at - 1 is from Dominican Republic - and the other 6 are as Malcolm says MM or BWIR - but then you have some names/next of kin info/addresses etc Good Luck - hope your ploy works!! Cheers Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry_Reeves Posted 21 April , 2008 Share Posted 21 April , 2008 The Dominica war memorial is here, with names clearly visible: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/dominica.html TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
At Home Dad Posted 21 April , 2008 Author Share Posted 21 April , 2008 Thanks Terry, that's great! Looks like I should take some RBL wreaths with us when we get down there, just to make it look a bit more... memorial. Thanks all Kind regards PS, Sue - it's not a ploy to get to the Hot Tropics, honest! It's where Working Mum is from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushfighter Posted 15 August , 2008 Share Posted 15 August , 2008 Dave Aside from service in the West India and British West India Regiments (over 700 Dominicans volunteered), men served at home in the Dominica Defence Force, which was raised in 1914 from the pre-war Defence Reserve Force (a volunteer shooting club). In September 1917 the Royal Navy supplied a shore defence QF gun that the Colonial Engineer mounted on a bluff 300 feet above sea level. A skeleton gun crew from the Royal Marine Light Infantry and 12 men of the Defence Force, under Captain Harry Walker, completed the crew. The gun does not appear to have been fired in anger, and the Defence Force was demobilized on 25th January 1919. Harry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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