Roseau,
Dominica World War 1 Memorial
World
War 1 - Detailed information
Compiled & Copyright © Martin Edwards 2006
The
memorial is in the form of a tower on the front of which is a brass
scroll containing the names of those who gave their lives in the First
World War from Dominica. The names have been sorted here into alphabetical
order for ease of reading.
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Photographs
Copyright © John Crow 2006 |
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DOMINICA
IN
MEMORY OF THOSE FROM
DOMINICA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
ANDERSON |
A
E |
Captain
- No further information currently available |
BARTT |
J
R |
Private,
British West Indies Regiment - No further information currently
available |
BASCUS |
C
S |
Private
6531, 1st Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. Died 14th October
1918. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bascus, of St. George's Grenada,
British West Indies. Buried in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Plot/Row/Section
O. Grave 22. |
BLANDY |
Claude
Milberne |
Captain,
110th Brigade Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery. Died 8th
APril 1916. Aged 36. Son of Richard and Ada Blandy, of Madeira;
husband of Juanita Blandy, of Woodside, Crowthorne, Berks. Buried
in ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France. Officers Section,
Plot A. Row 2. Grave 7. |
CAREW |
[Coventry]
George Warrington |
Major,
7th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Died
of wounds 20th November 1916. Aged 45. Son of the late Rev. W. Carew;
husband of Mary Jane Carew, of "Rocklands," Vicarage Rd.,
Chelston, Torquay, Devon. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7 B. |
CARTER |
G |
Captain
- No further information currently available |
DRAKE |
V |
Private
1137, 5th Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. Died 22nd July
1917. Buried in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Plot/Row/Section
A. Grave 60. |
HAZARD |
R
V |
2nd
Lieutenant - No further information currently available |
HENRY |
C |
Private,
British West Indies Regiment - there are three possibilities for
this man on the CWGC - cannot distinguish between them |
HILL |
Charles
Herbert |
Captain,
11th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment attached 1st Battalion,
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Killed in action 21st August 1915.
Aged 38. Son of the late Dr. William Robinson Hill and Mary Elizabeth
Hill; husband of the late Jessie Madeline Hill. No known grave.
Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel 171 to 173. |
HONORE |
G |
Private,
British West Indies Regiment - No further information currently
available |
JAMES |
Tarbet |
Private
1191, 2nd Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. Died 28th September
1917. Aged 22. Son of Elish and Maria James, of Marigot, Dominica,
B.W.I. Buried in KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Plot/Row/Section
E. Grave 447. |
JOHNSON |
Frank
L |
Lieutenant,
British West Indies Regiment and Royal Flying Corps. Died 6th September
1917. Aged 19. Son of Frank Hart Johnson and Louise Johnson, of
Barbados, British West Indies. Buried in ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR
MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Plot/Row/Section B. Grave 24. |
KNUBLEY,
M.C. |
Robert
Leavitt |
Captain,
3rd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment). Died of
wonds 9th July 1916. Aged 28. Son of Rev. Canon Edward Ponsonby
and Josephine Antoinette Knubley, of Steeple Ashton Vicarage, Wilts.
Born at Staveley Rectory, Yorks. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.).
Buried in WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.
PLot I. Row D. Grave 2. |
LEWIS |
H |
Private,
British West Indies Regiment - No further information currently
available |
MASON |
D
R |
Lieutenant
Commander, H.M.S. Osmanieh, Royal Naval Reserve. Died 31st December
1917. Aged 38. Husband of Selina Machell Mason, of Ivy Bank, Tenby.
Buried in ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Plot/Row/Section
B. Grave 38. |
PATRICE |
Donald
[Joseph] |
Private
1239, 2nd Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. Died 15th March
1919. Aged 20. Son of Alexander Patrice and Alice Nicholas, his
wife, of Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies. Buried in ALEXANDRIA
(HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Plot/Row/Section C. Grave
208. |
PETERS |
E
A |
Private
6595, 1st Battalion, British West Indies Regiment. Died 23rd October
1918. Aged 22. Son of William Peters and Ann Springer, his wife,
of Aymers Gut, Montserrat, B.W.I. Buried in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY,
Israel. Plot/Row/Section Q. Grave 135. |
SIMMONS |
T
S Noel |
Captain
- No further information currently available |
STORR |
Leycester
Penrhyn |
[Listed
as Leycester Benthyn STORR on SDGW] Major, 12th Battalion, King's
(Liverpool Regiment) Attached 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's
Light INfantry. Died 29th March 1918. Aged 38. Son of the Rev. John
and Mrs. Storr; husband of the Hon. Mrs. Leycester Storr (now Hon.
Mrs. Blake), of Albert Cottage, Osborne, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). No known grave.
Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 21 to 23. |
SULLY |
F
C |
[Listed
as Corporal on CWGC] Sergeant 11631, 8th Battalion, British West
Indies Regiment. Died 27th September 1917. No known grave. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Panel 15A. |
WILLIE |
T |
Private,
British West Indies Regiment |
WILSON |
C
R |
Captain
- No further information currently available |
Last updated
2 September, 2006
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