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Learn about what happened to the British West Indies Regiment after World War One with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.
In June 1921, the remains of an unknown British officer bearing buttons and badges of the Dorsetshire Regiment were found, but further identification proved impossible. Now, research has revealed ...
The discovery, a plaque for Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith of the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, debunks the previous belief that Walter Tull was the first black person to serve in the ...
Victoria Cross awarded to British hero who single-handedly machine-gunned more than 20 Germans to death and shot down a fighter plane in World War One sells for £220,000 ...
Henry Tandey became the most decorated private soldier in World War One. His bravery though, would be eclipsed in the run up to World War Two by allegations he had spared Adolf Hitler's life, in 1918.
SALFORD residents are being urged to do for a forgotten Victoria Cross hero what critics say his own regiment hasn't done - honour his memory. Joseph Woodall won a VC during the First World War ...
Soldiers from the Canadian Army's British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) carry the coffin of one of the three Canadian soldiers who died during the First World War as they are buried ...
Femi: After the end of World War One in 1918, the British West Indies Regiment returned home. They may have played an important part in the defeat of Germany and its allies, but post-war ...