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Private J F West

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Private John Frederick WEST, G/3943, 7th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd May 1917.

Born Shipbourne, Kent, son of John F & Ada West.

1911 Census - Roughway Tonbridge, Kent - John Frederick West, head, age 48, married, mechanical engineer, paper making, worker, born Erith, Kent; Ada West, wife, age 43, married 18 years, 7 children, all still alive, born Greenwich, Kent; John Frederick West, son, age 14, school, born Shipbourne, Kent; Edith West, daughter, age 13, school, born Shipbourne, Kent; Olive West, daughter, age 11, school, born Shipbourne, Kent; Sydney West, son, age 9, school, born Plaxtol, Kent; Marjorie West, daughter, age 7, born Plaxtol, Kent; Muriel West, daughter, age 4, born Plaxtol, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.  Resided Roughway near Tonbridge, Kent.

11th August 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7, Pas de Calais, France. / Plaxtol War Memorial