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4th Class Rifleman Walter West-Redman

14714274 9th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

View in the cemetery
Son of Mr Walter & Mrs Nellie West

Aged 18 years

Died 31st October 1944

Commemorated at Mierlo War Cemetery
Grave VII. E.10.



Photos taken in
2011 by Richard Schoutissen who is researching men buried at Mierlo War Cemetery
 Walter's gravestone Mierlo Cemetery
Evening Telegraph, 13th November 1944, extracted by Pete Inns, transcribed by Kay Collins

Walter WestRushden Soldier Killed

News that their second son, Walter, had been killed in action in North-West Europe at the end of October was received on Thursday by Mr. and Mrs. W. West, of “Dolstan”, Blinco-road, Rushden.

Aged 18, he had been in the Army for nine months, and went to France five weeks ago, then being transferred from the Northamptonshire Regiment to the Cameronians. He attended Newton-road School as a boy and later worked at Messrs. Bignell’s, Crabb-street factory. A brother is in Burma and a sister in the A.T.S.

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