Soldiers of the Great War, 1920: Alabama

Porter West

Private Porter West of Baker Hill, Alabama is listed in Soldiers of the Great War, 1920: Alabama (1920) as soldier, world war i (died of wounds). The page shows the portrait and details printed in that source.

Soldier, World War I (died of wounds), 1920

362 people in Soldiers of the Great War, 1920: Alabama · 51 more named West

Full name: Porter West
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, 1920: Alabama
Listed as: Soldier, World War I (died of wounds), 1920

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Going through the Alabama roll in Soldiers of the Great War (1920) from A to Z, Porter is the 347th of 362 names on this site. Find Porter on page 91 of the scan, in a book whose entries here run from page 74 to page 93. The rank Private appears 286 times in the 355 entries that print a rank (81%), Porter's included. Of 358 men whose outcome is recorded in this volume's list, 39 (11%) are marked dead of wounds, as Porter is.

On the same scan page	Taylor Keene Jr, John Milton Tobias, Otis Austin Tucker, Ernest A. Turner and 13 more
Same rank	Private: 286 of 355 with a printed rank (81%)
Recorded outcome	dead of wounds: 39 of 358 with an outcome (11%)

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Soldiers of the Great War, 1920: Alabama, page 91. View the original at the Internet Archive (item SoldiersOfTheGreatWarV1).

Published 1920, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Internet Archive via the Internet Archive.

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