Monuments and Cemeteries.

Many monuments were erected in Britain's Caribbean Colonies in memory of the European colonists. These included the armed forces, clergy, administrators and their relatives. Please find listed below the memorials to the members of the West India Regiments (predominantly European Officers) who died. 

1st West India Regiment

Bahamas - Christ Church Cathedral, Nassau, Island of Providence.  

F. A. Wetherall, died 21st August 1857, aged 44.
Lieutenant-Colonel 1st West India Regiment in command here.
Eldest son of Lieutnant-General Sir G. A. Wetherall, K.C.B. Adjudant General to the Forces.
Monument erected by the Officers of the Regiment.

Mary Jane Patterson Allen, died 24th October 1852 of fever.
Wife of George Allen, Esq., late of H. M. 1st West India Regiment.
Also to their infant son Charles herbert John who died 5th January 1853, aged 11 months.

Emily Ann Allan, died 24th June 1850, aged 22 years and 8 months, having given birth to a daughter three weeks before.
Wife of George Allan, 1st West India Regiment and third daughter of Joseph and Mary E. Thompson of the Island.

Julius William Thompson of the 1st West India Regiment, died 12th January 1851, on his passage to England in the American ship "Franconia" wrecked off Holyhead.
He, the commander and five of the crew perished.
Erected by his parents Joseph and Mary E. Thompson to their youngest son born 17th August 1829.

Barbados - Military Cemetery, Needham's Point.

Jane Johnston, wife of Corporal R. Johnston, 1st West India Regiment.
Died 1878.

Dominica - Burial Ground at the Savannah, Roseau.

To the Memory of Gustavus H. Reilly, Lieutenant 1st West India Regiment and late Fort Adjutant of this Garrison.
Second son of John Lushington Reily, Esq., of Scarvagh, County of Down Ireland.
Born january 1813. Died 29th July 1841. 

Guyana - Militery Burial Ground, Eve Leary Barracks or Kingston.

Mary Rawson, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Bush, K.H., 1st West India Regiment.
Died 1st October 1841. Aged 51.

Charles Grey, Ensign, 1st West India Regiment, fourth son of William Grey, Esq.
Died 29th June 1842. Aged 22, a native of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, England.

2nd West India Regiment

Bahamas - Christ Church Cathedral, Nassau, Island of Providence.

Cipriano Palacios, died 26th November 1879.
Born at Reynosa , Old Castile, Spain, 16th September 1789.

Married 23rd October 1845. At Nassau, New Providence, Charles Rookes, Lieutenant, 2nd West India Regiment to Teresa, second daughter of Don Capician (sic) Palacios of Castile Old Spain.
(Gentleman's Magazine 1846, p. 86.)

Frederick Charles Richardson, Esq., died 4th March 1838, aged 22.
Lieutenant, 2nd West India Regiment, born langford, Fifehead, Somerset.
10 months previous to his death he had married Eliza, daughter of the late Lewis Kerr, many years the speaker of the House of Assembly, and subsequently Attorney General of the Bahamas.

Helen Ross died 14th April 1815, aged 33.
Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Ross, 2nd West India Regiment.
Their infant son William Patrick died 1st June 1815, aged 1 year and 7 months.

Euphemia Elizabeth Allen, died 8th May 1843, in her 25th year.
Wife of Major James Allen, 2nd West India Regiment, and daughter of Joseph and Mary E. Thompson.

Bahamas - St Mathew's, New Providence.

Alexander Hope Pattison, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd West India Regiment, commanding Troops in this Colony.
Second son of John Pattison of Kelvin, died 11th January 1835, aged 48(?).
Buried with impressive ceremonial in St. Mathew's Churchyard, New Providence. He was one of the 3rd Division and served on the Staff of Picton and at Salamanca, etc.
His fellow citizens first erected a monument in the Necropolis of Glasgow, and his widow Anna, second daughter of His Honour Judge Robert Johnson erected the stone over his ashes in which also rests his nephew.

Alexander Hope Pattison, Lieutenant, 2nd West India Regiment, fifth son of John Pattison, Esq., of Glasgow, N.B. and the nephew of Lieutenant-Colonel Pattison K.H., Commanding the Troops in this Colony, died of Yellow Fever at Nassau, 28th September 1834, aged 21. Erected by his brother officers.

Barbados - Military Cemetery, Needham's Point.

Miles H. Braithwaite, late Pay Master Sergeant, 2nd West India Regiment.
Died 1st June (no year). Aged 45 years.

Seymour Blanshard Pemberton, Lieutenant, 2nd West India Regiment.
Who died of Yellow Fever, 7th October 1881. Aged 25 years.

Mary Elizabeth, wife of Sergeant S. E. Haynes, 2nd West India Regiment.
Died 1875.

E. A. Darcy, son of E. Darcey, 2nd West India Regiment.
Died 1875.

Sergeant Benjamin Clarke, 2nd West India Regiment.
Died 20th December 1885. Aged 41 years.

3rd West India Regiment.

Guyana - Burial Ground of Penal Establishment at Massaruni.

In memory of Eliza Ann Lyndon, daughter of Claud and Rachel Kerr.
Born 1st January 1862. Died 16th September 1862. Aged 8 months 15 days.

Sacred to the Memory of Claude Kerr, Captain 3rd West India Regiment. Superintendant of His Majesty's Penal Settlement from 1862 to 1871.
Born 7th February 1826. Died 3rd February 1871. 

4th West India Regiment

Bahamas - Christ Church Cathedral, Nassau, Island of Providence.

Clara Conran, died 2nd March 1866, on board the S.S. Calabar on her way to Africa.
Buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Mediera. Wife of Colonel Conran, 4th West India Regiment. Lieutenant Governor of the Gold Coast, (Ed: now Ghana) West Africa and youngest daughter of Cipriano and Maria Palacios.