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The Roll lists his address as 191 High Street, Old Fletton.
(CWGC records that Private R.B. West, regimental number 56665, died on 31/10/1918 serving in 17th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and is now buried in grave III.A.7 at Vichte Military Cemetery in Belgium, having been reinterred after the War.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Reginald Bernard West was a native of Stanground who was living in Filey when he enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Betsy was his legatee.
His birth was registered as Reginald Bernard West in Peterborough District in 1898. On the 1901 census he was staying with his grandparents Thomas and Ellen Shepherd at 35 Persimmon Terrace, High Street, Fletton. On the 1911 census he was living with his mother Bertha and his step-father James Bird at 34 Duke Street, Old Fletton.
Reginald's marriage to Betsy Killingbeck was registered in Peterborough District in 1916).