W I Regiment
 

West Indians or Africans?

British West India Regiment. Almost all the African units wore either a Terai (slouch) hat, a woollen cap comforter, or a so-called (by historians) Kilmarnock bonnet (aka pork-pie type 'forage cap').

P.S. Your picture is quite well known on the web, Ron, and comes from the same group of images as the one that I enclose.

Link to both photos:

A White Man's War? World War One and the West Indies

My grandfather 2nd Bn Linconshire Rgt served with Bermudians both white and black he said he could not understand them, he spoke with a thick Grantham accent which I had trouble with.

Interesting that the BWI troops were armed with Long LE rifles, of which there must have been a great number available around the Empire for second line and guard use. I posted a photo a while ago of Australian soldiers carrying LLE rifles, guarding German prisoners in WW1 and wearing GCC badges (German Concentration Camp), located in NSW.
I understand that the Naval Division at Gallipoli also had LLE rifles but have never been able to determine whether the KAR carried them in the East African campaign, which is a most interesting and often neglected part of WW1 military history.