Ephraim William West (1890 - 1918)

Born 1890 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Gomme) Ribble — married 1914 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

Died Sep 1918 at about age 28 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England

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Biography

Ephraim enlisted in the British Army on September 7, 1914. He was a Private in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry. But he had suffered from Rheumatic Fever and a variety of associated ailments and he appeared before the medical board on December 23, 1915 and was recommended for discharge from the service. He was discharged on January 8, 1916 with the notation "no longer physically fit for war service". Ephraim died less than three years later in the Spanish flu epidemic.

Sources

• 1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 1118; Folio: 141; Page: 19; GSU roll: 6096228, Schedule number: 117.

• England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915, 1914, Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec, Registration district: Hertford, Inferred County: Hertfordshire, Volume: 3a, Page: 1568.

• British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920, The National Archives of the UK (TNA), The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO364; Piece: 4574.

• England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007, Sep, 1918, Registration district: Watford, Inferred County: Hertfordshire, Volume: 3a, Page: 756.