Career
He was knighted on the eve of Henry V"s coronation. He fought at the Battle of Agincourt, and is listed on a pipe-roll with a retinue of 14 lancers and 40 archers. Afterwards, he was assigned to the garrison of Calais.
Next year, the Earl of Warwick, who was Captain of Calais, sent out an expedition on 24 September 1416 to capture a Genoese carrack, since the Genoese were allies of France.
Thomas West was mortally wounded putting on his armor before the battle. He was arming himself at the foot of the mast when one of the stones being hauled up to the catapults on the masthead slipped.
But he survived long enough to die in England.
