BWIR troops reported being ostracized and segregated from white soldiers. When a pay rise was given to other imperial troops, it was denied to the West Indians on the grounds that they were ‘natives’. In December 1918, the West Indians, who had volunteered to fight and seen action in the Middle East, were ordered to do the laundry of both white British troops and civilian Italian labourers, and then to clean the latrines of the white troops.
