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Military service
Service number:
1069507
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
November 23, 1892
Kettering, England
Enlistment:
March 2, 1917
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 26, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. E. 6.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Survived by his brother Percy, serving overseas with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Private West worked as boys' work secretary, Y.M.C.A. He had graduated from the Y.M.C.A. College in Chicago, Illinois.
Digital gallery of Private Ralph Edwin West
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Newspaper Clipping
News article from the Calgary Herald dated 24 September 1918 advising of the death of Private West. The article chronicles the sporting career of Private West. -
Newspaper Clipping
source: Calgary Herald; September 25, 1918, page 14
Digital gallery of
Private Ralph Edwin West
Digital gallery of
Private Ralph Edwin West
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 520 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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