Thread: 1914 War Record

Can anyone help with my grandfathers war record for the 1914-18 war.

Unfortunately I do not have a service number or photos of him in uniform. I know that he served as a Gunner/private in the Royal Garrison Artillery,as this was on my late fathers birth certificate in december 1918, but on my grandfathers marriage certificate in 1916 his rank/profession was just put as a 'soldier'.
He lived in the Portsmouth area Hampshire, also another problem he had a quite common name being
Ernest James West. He also got mustard gassed, and survived, so I looked up on discharged list on Ancestry, but no luck
I looked up on The National Archives sight, and managed to find in campaign medals several Ernest Wests all listed as gunners, so how do I find if I have got the right one? as the cards do not give much information.
I also did the same for Acommercial site.Co.uk when they had the free search last year,and came up with the same information. How do I get his service record without a service number?

Do you think he may have been in the Hampshire Regt? was he in the Army for just the wars years? or longer.Is there anyone at all you could ask even if you got a clue it may help you.