The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal S J West

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Corporal Samuel James WEST, 203395, (3147), 2nd/4th  Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Egypt, 19th April 1917.

Born Kingston-on-Thames, son of Samuel & Amelia West.

1911 Census - 14 Wheelers Terrace, Winchester Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire - Samuel West, head, age 58, married, Railway Guard, South Western Railway, worker, born Fareham, Hampshire; Amelia West, wife, age 62, married 34 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Heston, Middlesex.

Enlisted London, EC.  Resided Eastleigh, Hampshire.

6th July 1918, Probate - Samuel James West, 14 Wheelers Terrace, Eastleigh, Hampshire, Corporal 2nd/4th  Battalion  Royal West Kent Regiment, died 19th April 1917, near Gaza, Syria. Administration (with Will) Winchester 6th July to Samuel West, Railway Guard. Effects £110 6s 11d.

Buried  at Gaza War Cemetery, XXX. D. 6., Israel.