Participant Info

Surname

West

First Name

Herbert

Initial

A

Service Number

5914

Rank

lance-corporal

Unit Served

20th Battalion

Service Record

France, Belgium

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

August 13

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

October 7

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

October 8

Death Category

DOW

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 147, image page 146

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Edwin and Margaret West

Parental Address

62 McArthur Parade, Dulwich Hill

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born in Sydney, September 2, 1901, educated Kegworth and Dulwich Hill Public Schools, enlisted April 1916, at the age of 14, embarked October 1916. War service: France (Bapaume, wounded at Bullecourt, May 24, 1917), wounded 2nd occasion, Passchendaele, O