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Richard Gilbert West was born on 31 May, 1926 in India. He was an Indian Army officer who served in the British Indian Army during World War II. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. West was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1945. He served in the Burma Campaign and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his actions in the Battle of Meiktila. He was also awarded the Military Cross for his actions in the Battle of Imphal. West retired from the Indian Army in 1962 and settled in England. He was a member of the Royal British Legion and the Burma Star Association. West was married to his wife, Margaret, for over 60 years. He had two sons and two daughters. West died on 28 April, 2021 at the age of 94.

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1926

Richard Gilbert West FRS (31 May 1926 – 30 December 2020) was a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist. He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I. Although being tempted to take Geology for Part II, he decided to study Botany, for which he obtained First Class Honours and the Frank Smart Studentship. As a research student, he was supervised by Harry Godwin, Director of the Subdepartment of Quaternary Research and investigated the now classic study of the stratigraphy and palynology of the Middle Pleistocene interglacial lake deposits at Hoxne, Suffolk. He was awarded his PhD in 1954, shortly after he was elected a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Richard become a lecturer in the Department of Botany in 1960, in 1966 he became Director of the Subdepartment, and Professor of Botany in 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and was awarded many medals and prizes, including the Lyell and Bigsby medals of the Geological Society and the Albrecht Penck medal of the Deutsche Quartärvereiningung. He retired in 1991.