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WEST, Ernest Arthur
1895 - 1918 (23 years) Has 32 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1868 - 1921 (53 years)-
Name WEST, Ernest Arthur Birth 10 Jun 1895 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England 
Gender Male Death 18 Dec 1918 Active Service In World War 1 Person ID I2614 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Father WEST, Jesse, b. 1863, Leicester, Leicestershire d. 1936, Wolverhampton Registration District, Staffordshire (Age 73 years) Relationship natural Mother SMITH, Sarah Elizabeth, b. 1868, Leeds, Yorkshire, England d. 1921, Wolverhampton Registration District, Staffordshire (Age 53 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1891 Leeds, Yorkshire, England Family ID F190 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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ERNEST ARTHUR WEST 1895-1918
The 1901 census returns for 25 Larches Lane, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire:
Jesse WEST, head, aged 37, schoolmaster, born at Leicester;
Sarah E. WEST, wife, aged 33, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
Jessie (sic) WEST, son, aged 7, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
*Ernest WEST, son, aged 5, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Adelaide DONE, servant, aged 17, general servant, born at Wednesfield, Staffordshire.
(RG13/2673/85/34)
He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School from 17 September 1908 until 26 July 1912.
The 1911 census of Glengarry, Coalway Road, Penn Fields, Wolverhampton:
Jesse WEST, head, aged 47, married, principal Higher Grade School,W'ton Educatn. Committee, born in Leicester, Leicestershire;
Sarah Elizabeth WEST, wife, aged 43, married 18 years, 4 children (3 living), born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
Jesse WEST, son, aged 17, single, born at Leeds, Yorkshire;
*Ernest Arthur WEST, son, aged 15, single, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Harold Edgoose WEST, son, aged 9, born at Wolverhampton, Staffordshire;
Elizabeth MOSELEY, servant, aged 34, single, general servant domestic, born at Claverley, Shropshire.
(RG14/17008)
"ERNEST ARTHUR WEST, Private in the Royal Army Service Corps., was the second son of Mr Jesse WEST of Coalway Road, Wolverhampton,
Headmaster of the Wolverhampton Higher Grade School. He came to the school in September 1908, and remained till July 1912. Then, having chosen dentistry as his profession, he studied under Mr Vincent KNIGHT and entered later the Dental Hospital at Birmingham. With but a year to wait for his final examination, he joined the A.S.C. in November 1915. The following February he was sent out to join the British Force in East Africa and served in trying operations against the Germans for nearly three years. He thus saw the war end in victory, but he had unfortunately contracted blackwater fever, and he died at Mombassa in British East Africa on December 18th 1918, aged 23."
(Old Wulfrunians who died in World War One)
"WEST, Cadet E. A., 13774, R. A. Force, 18th Dec. 1918 III. B. II)
(CWGC)
(revised 29.04.2015)