Dec 6 1918 British West Indies Regiment a unit of the British Army during the First World War, formed from volunteers from British colonies in the West Indies starts a mutiny in Taranto, Italy. The violent mutiny against appalling and racist treatment, though heavily repressed, many later returned home to the West Indies and joined worker and anti-colonial unrest
Dec 6 1918 British West Indies Regiment a unit of the British Army during the First World War, formed from volunteers from British colonies in the West Indies starts a mutiny in Taranto, Italy. The violent mutiny against appalling and racist treatment, though heavily repressed, many later returned home to the West Indies and joined worker and anti-colonial unrest