Name
Harry James West
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Harry West was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in June 1915, serving with the Army Service Corps (ASC). He was recorded serving with the ASC throughout the War, and was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley in Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919. In both records he was identified serving with the 3rd Company, 1st Mounted Divisional Train, Army Service Corps, and gave his address at 55 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley.
The National Roll of the Great War noted that Harry volunteered in 1915, and in the following year was drafted to Egypt and from there to Palestine, where he served in various engagements, including those at Gaza, Jaffa, Haifa, Aleppo, Damascus and Beyrout (sic). He returned and was demobilised in May 1919.
Harry West survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
