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Private W J West


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Private William John WEST, G/4015, 2nd Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 30th December 1917, age 29.

Born  Ontario, Canada, son of William and Alice West, of Leon House, 1 I, Caroline Place, Hastings, Sussex. 


1911 Census - 150 Upper Fant Road, Maidstone, Kent - William West, head, age 48. married, builder, building, employer, born Maidstone; Alice West, wife, age 45, married 25years, 5 children, all still alive, born Maidstone; William John West, son, age 22, single, builders clerk, building, worker, born Brandford, Ontario, Canada; Baraba Alice West, daughter, age 19, single, born Maidstone; Gordon Richard West, son, age 16, single, born Maidstone; Cyril Redvers West, son, age 11, born Maidstone.


Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

Commemorated  at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XIX. D. 11., Iraq. / Canadian Book of Remembrance.


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