Albert Henry West
Private 201566
2^nd/4^th Royal Berkshire Regiment

Division 40

 Albert Henry West, is  commemorated on a family memorial with the words “Dear son Dick, Killed in Action March 21^st 1918 aged 19.

 A CWGC search reveals only one West killed on that date.  It is assumed that they are one and the same person. This was confirmed by an Ancestry UK search.  Relatives have begun a family tree which contains the known information.

Albert was the third son of George Alfred West and Jane West nee Palmer. His brothers were George and Thomas. He had an older and a younger sister called Florence and Gertrude. Sadly Florence also died in 1918, in October, as a result of the flu epidemic.

The 21 March was the first day of the German Spring Offensive. This was a time of rapid movement by the German forces and as a result it would have been almost impossible to remove the dead from the field of battle. Albert Henry West has no known grave and is listed among the missing on the Pozieres Memorial Panel 56 and 57.