Born Hull 1882. Third son of George Walton West (1853-1928) and Alice Ann Kennington (1855-1936), of 73 Brunswick Avenue. Hull. His father was a sewer foreman, for the Council’s Works Department. He had four brothers and two sisters. A City Engineer’s Bricklayer, working in West Hull. He enlisted in Hull. Served as a Sergeant, with the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. Wounded at the Somme in 1916, he returned to Hull to recuperate and married, Annie M. Johnson in 1916. They lived at 7 Brunswick Avenue, Hull (Hull Daily Mail address, 27/04/1917).
He returned to the front and was killed in action, on 12/04/1917, aged 34. He left widow, Annie and daughter, Teresa West, (1917-2009).
His name is recorded on the Arras Memorial, France (id 124962865) and the Clifton Street School WW1 Memorial. His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail on 02/06/1917.
His brother, John William West, a Harness maker, served as Saddle Sergeant, 21659, in the Royal Field Artillery. He was wounded on 12/04/1918. He lived at 13 Beaconsfield Street, Queens Road, Hull, with his wife Sarah and three children, (Army Records Address).
Thank you to Mike Travers, for his family information above, sent 13/06/2022.
My grandfather, David West, came from Sculcoates and was killed at Arras on 12th April 1917 aged in his early 30’s.
He was wounded at the Somme in 1916 and returned to Hull to recuperate where he married my grandmother Annie Johns(t)on.
My mother, Teresa West, was born in August 1917 to her widowed mother; she died in 2009.
She always thought that her early life would have been so much better had her father lived.
I believe her fathers family did not treat her too well.
Do you have any pictures of my grandfather David West he was a sergeant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Bn; Service No 5068? He is recorded on the Arras memorial id 124962865.
Kind Regards. Mike Travers
