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Lieutenant Colonel MAURICE LETHBRIDGE WEST

Service Number: 36915
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

Cdg. 1/8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1944

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY

1. A. 1.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the Right Revd. George Algernon West, M.M., M.A., Lord Bishop of Rangoon, and Marion West; husband of Kathleen Elizabeth West, of Himley, Worcestershire.
  • Personal Inscription "SPLENDID YOU PASSED, INTO THE LIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1421
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