Name
John Preston Sackville West
July 1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
D Bty. 189th Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
Sp. Mem. A. 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Compton & Shawford Memorial, Hants
Pre War
John Preston Sackville West was born in July 1888 as the second son of Frederic West, a Civil Engineer, and Emily Sarah (nee Palmer).
He attended the Grange School, Stevenage and Aldenham School.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in Royal Field Artillery on 30 Dec 1915.
His Medal Record Card states South Africa 1915 and that the South African Government issued a 15 Star.
He was Mentioned In Despatches on 18 May 1917.He was killed in action near Zillebeke, Ypres on 14 Jun 1917 and is buried somewhere, and commemorated on Special Memorial A in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, south of Ypres.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs E S West of 'LLanberis', Shawford, Hants. ordered his headstone inscription: "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT". Younger brother Mortimer Sackville West, 2nd Lieutenant, 11 Squadron RFC was killed in action 11 Nov 1917 when, he as pilot and Captain John Albert Revill, Canadian Observer, were shot down in a Bristol F2b. Older brother Frederic Sackville West joined Artillery in South Africa and after this area of the Great War closed down, transferred as 2nd Lt RFA and served in France until the Armistice.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
