Records of the Armed Forces from commands, headquarters, regiments and corpsWO 3361948-1962War Office: Headquarters British Forces Caribbean Area: Files
This series consists of selected files of British Army HQ relating to Caribbean area for the period following the end of the Second World War up to the granting of independence to the British West Indian territories in the 1960s.
These papers deal with the organisation of the military forces within the area, including the West India Regiment, as well as particular problems encountered during this period, especially the internal security (IS) operations in British Guiana (later Guyana) during 1962-1964; the dispute with Guatemala over British Honduras (later Belize) starting with deployments there in 1948; and plans to maintain the security of the area.