Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal H. West, Devonshire Regiment, was killed in action in Iraq on 4 February 1917, during the 1st/4th Battalion’s extremely costly attack on the Hai Salient in the Turkish line south of Kut

British War and Victory Medals (1918 Pte. H. West. Devon R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1918 Pte. H. West. Devon R.); Memorial Plaque (Harold West), with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in paper envelope, extremely fine (4) £200-£240

Harold West, of Cullompton, Devon, attested for the Devonshire Regiment (Territorial Force) and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia. He was killed in action in Iraq on 4 February 1917, during the battalion’s extremely costly attack on the Hai Salient in the Turkish line south of Kut, and is buried at the Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.