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Norham Eugene West was born in King Williamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa, on 7 June 1897 and having emigrated to Canada attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at New Westminster, British Columbia, on 11 March 1915.
He served with the 16th Battalion (Manitoba Regiment), Canadian Infantry, during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 March 1916, and was wounded and partially buried by a shell on 25 April 1916.
He was killed in action on 13 June 1916 and is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Belgium.
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