The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G F West

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Private George Francis WEST, 242482, (2240 / 1913), 1st / 5th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Lucknow, India, 2nd October 1917.

Born Strood, Kent, son of Edwin & Ada Elizabeth West.

1911 Census - 70 Thorold Road, Luton, Chatham, Kent - Ada Elizabeth West, head, age 37, married 16 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Rochester, Kent; George Francis West, son, age 15, single, Trades Bo, bricklaying, H.M. Dockyard, worker, born Strood, Kent; Wilfred Harold West, son, age 10, school, Strood, Kent; Bessye West, daughter, age 8, Strood, Kent.

Enlisted Chatham, Kent.

Commemorated on Special Memorial, Lucknow Cantonment Military Cemetery, India. 

NOTE: Included in Regimental History Roll of Honour and Soldiers Died in the Great War.