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The Roll lists his address as 123 High Street, Old Fletton.
(CWGC records that Private W. West, regimental number 40635, died on 22/4/1917 serving in 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, and is buried in grave IV.B.24 at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that William's widow Eliza was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Peterborough who enlisted in Huntingdon, and that he had formerly served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment under regimental number 30282.
When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 12/5/1917 William was reported as being the 2nd son of Mrs H. West of Fletton. The marriage of William West to Eliza Harvey was registered in Peterborough District in 1913. On the 1911 census William had been aged 25, living with his widowed mother Martha Matilda West at 9 Duke Street, Old Fletton. On the 1901 census he had been living with his father Henry in Duke Street; William's mother was absent from the household that census night, staying with her parents. William's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1885).