|
|
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Site Home
Help & FAQs
Features
Submissions
Information
Advertisements
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Sgt. George White
British Army 5th Btn. York & Lancsahire Regiment
from:Barnsley
(d.10th Sep 1915)
Pte. George Edward White
British Army 4th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Morley, Leeds
(d.7th July 1918)
Pte. George W. White
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Sherriff Hill
Capt. George White
British Army 1st Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:95 Paris Street, Exeter
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Capt. White led his men in the British advance on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was wounded in the side but continued to lead his men. He was then killed by a shot to the head. He is remembered at the Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, and there is also a memorial plaque attached to the White family grave in the Higher Cemetery, Exeter.
Pte. George Robert White
British Army 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:East Leeds
(d.1st July 1916)
George White was killed in action, attempting to take the village of Fricourt. He attacked at 0730hrs in one of the first two company's that made it over no mans land to their objective at Konig Trench. Unfortunately he was isolated along with other members of his company as their backup, the third and fourth company's were cut down by machine guns. They continued hand to hand fighting and bombing throughout the morning, but George was unfortunately killed. He was originally buried in Hare Lane Trench and was moved after the war to Dantzig Alley. Always remembered. RIP.
Pte. George Robert White
British Army 10th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. George Alfred White
British Army 15th (Service) Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Southampton, Hampshire
(d.8th August 1916)
George White was killed in action with the Hampshire Regiment. He is buried in Kemmel Chateau Cemetery in Belgium.
Pte. George Henry White
British Army 5th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Hempton, Deddington, Oxfordshire
(d.3rd May 1917 )
George White is the 1st Cousin three times removed of my wife Irene Davies. George was a Private with the 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 42nd Brigade, 14th Division during the Great War. George was born in 1888 in Over Norton, Oxfordshire to Job White and Eva Augustus White (nee Brooks). In July 1889 his brother Jessie Thomas White was also born in Over Norton, Oxfordshire, England. The 1901 Census shows he was 13 years old, living with his parents Job age 40 years and Eva Augusta age 42 years together with his brothers Jessie Thomas age 11 years and John Edwards age 18 years; in the Town of East Adderbury. On the 8th of April 1905 he married Emma Elizabeth Timms at the Parish Church in Deddington, Oxfordshire. He was 18 years old, a bachelor and laborer in Hempton, she was 19 years old and a spinster. Their marriage was officiated by The Reverend Thomas Boniface, vicar of the parish church. The Banns of Marriage were read at the same church on 19 March 1905, 26 March 1905 and 2 April 1905 prior to their marriage. On 1 Oct 1905 their first daughter Elsie Elizabeth White was born at Hampton, Hempton, Deddington, Oxfordshire, England. On 7 Nov 1910 their second daughter Florence Lettie White was also born at Hempton, Deddington, Oxfordshire, England. The 1911 Census shows he was 23 years old, married and living with his wife Emma and their daughters in Hempton, North Deddington. He was a Farm Laborer (Worker) in Hempton, North Deddington, Oxfordshire, England.
About 1916 he enlisted with 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 42nd Brigade, 14th Division at Banbury, Oxfordshire. His army paperwork shows that he was 28 years old, living with his wife Emma Elizabeth and their daughters Elsie Elizabeth and Florence Lettie at Hempton, Deddington, Oxfordshire, England.
On 3rd of May 1917 he was killed in action at the Battle of Scarpe, during the Arras Offensive. He is commemorated on The Arras Memorial.
I do have all of the source documents attached to George Henry White's profile in my Davies Family Tree on Ancestry.ca unfortunately I have yet to locate the Attestation document wherein he enlisted with the 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Banbury.
Pte. H. White
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ryhope
H White was wounded in 1916 and 1917
Pte. Harry Martin White
British Army 6th Btn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment
from:Orpington, Kent
(d.14th October 1915)
Harry White was killed at or near Gun Trench by shellfire, his body was never recovered. His name is on a panel at Dud Corner Cemetery.
Rfm. Hugh White
British Army 9th Btn. D Coy Rifle Brigade
from:14 Chichester Houses, Great Eastern Street, London
Hugh White was my Grandfather on my mother's side, I never met him as he died of TB before I was born, I was told he was born in London. I am in possession of his two Army pay books, for use on active service, which record that he was 19 years old when he enlisted. Date of attestation 14.10.04. I am just starting to do a little research based on the information in the books.
My Grandfather was wounded at the Battle for the Aisne, suffering an injury to his right foot on 26th September 1914. He was taken prisoner by the Germans 21st March 1918, no further details are known of his capture. I have no idea why he has two Army numbers, 20447 and 603.
His Officers Commanding are shown as: J H Hayes - Capt (30.9.15)stationed at Sheerness and H J Gallagher (4.6.17) stationed at Eastchurch.
I am a TA soldier with over 30 years service in and this is the first posting I have done in respect of my Grandfather.
Pte. J. L. White
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. J. White
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Hebburn
J White suffered a Gunshot wound in Oct. 1916
Pte. James White
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.1st May 1915)
Fus. James Walter White
British Army 32nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Simpasture, Aycliffe
Cpl. James Heslop White
British Army 2nd Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Jarrow
(d.25th Sep 1915)
James Heslop White, Corporal 9790, served in the 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps and died on the 25th September 1915. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and the Loos Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals.
James was born in Jarrow 1892, son of James and Margaret White of 8 Bladen Street, Jarrow.
Spr. James White
British Army 228th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Nawton
(d.25th March 1918)
James White's name is on the memorial tablet in Kirkdale Minster. I am a member of the Ryedale Family History Group working on the local war memorials. He has been very hard to trace and any info would be welcome.
L/Cpl. James Alban Charles "Jimmy" White
British Army 15th (2nd Portsmouth Pals) Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Warminster
James White enlisted in the 15th (2nd Portsmouth Pals) Btn, Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 9th Feb 1915. After training the Bn moved to France on 2nd May 1916 as part of 122nd Brigade in 41st Division and moved to the La Creche area where they started instruction in the trenches in parties of about 100 with other units on the 10th May. The Bn continued to operate in the area between Hazebrouck and Bailleul until Sep 1916 when it moved to the Somme area.
On 15th Sep 1916 the Battalion took part in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, which was the first attack using tanks. A major advance (in WW1 terms) was achieved and the village of Flers was captured by 122nd Brigade with the support of the tanks. However casualties were high, mainly due to the German artillery barrage, but also to three machine guns on the Battalions left. 8 officers and 31 men were killed, 5 officers and 188 men wounded and 60 men were missing.
James White was one of those wounded, and left some notes and a map of the action. It shows he reached the 3rd German line at the edge of the village, where he says the line was consolidated, and he may have gone further on with a party under Lt Smith. His map shows he was wounded in the second German line, but does not indicate if this was on the way forward or later. However the Battalion War Diary records that the German barrage was very heavy and many messengers were killed or wounded trying to get messages to or from Battalion HQ to the men in Flers. It may be that James White was one of these. He suffered severe wounds to his legs from a shell.
He records that he manged to get to a Field Ambulance in a sunken road running from Longueval to Flers and was then evacuated back. He spent a long time in Whitchurch Military Hospital (Cardiff), Netley Hospital and the Royal South Hants Hospital and was discharged as unfit for military service on 22nd Nov 1917.
James Alban Charles White died in 1926, ten years after he was wounded, from septicemia caused by his wounds.
Pte Jeremiah White
United States Army 9th Infantry Division (Old Reliables)
from:Biddeford, Maine
Jeremiah was on the USS Princess Matoika
Pte John White
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:54, Park Rd, Gateshead,
(d.17th Dec 1917)
White, John. Private 19/1274, Killed in action on 17th December 1917. Aged 22 years.
Buried in Minty Farm Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-V, in grave II. A. 2.
Son of Mary White, of 54, Park Rd, Gateshead.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. John Thomas White
British Army Machine Gun Corps 'C' Division 4th Queen's Own Hussars
from:13 Regent Street, Newtown, Bristol
My Grandfather John Thomas White known to the family as Jack served his King and Country in the Great War 1914-1918. He was born 10th October 1893 in Bristol and in 1914 had been working at Thrissell Engineering Works formerly Brecknolls in Easton, Bristol. He was one of 'Kitcheners Army' and enlisted during a Bristol rally on 28th August 1914. He served with the 4th Queen's Own Hussars.
As quoted to me by his son, my uncle, David White in his family tree research the story goes as follows- My mother later recalled the incident and told me "Your father and I went to the Colston Hall (Bristol) to witness the scenes, he had no intention to sign up, as being 21 he felt that it was a 'young man's' war." To her surprise at the end of the rally, when the chairman called for volunteers to come down and sign up, he suddenly jumped up from his seat and said "I am going to join!" He told mother not to wait for him but to go home as there were virtually hundreds of men waiting to sign up. She recalled that she was very angry at this but when she got outside she was quickly grabbed by the arm by one of the other single women and then all walked away from the Colston Hall singing 'God save the King' and other patriotoc songs. She said her anger quickly went and she then felt very proud that her then fiancee had joined the army and relieved that she would not face the angry outbursts that many women had to face if their husbands/boyfriends had not come forward to volunteer.
Jack had his call-up papers to join the Reserve Calvary and reported to an army barracks - possibly Tidworth - to be kitted out and was then transferred to the Curragh, Northern Ireland to begin basic training. He stayed in Ireland for the rest of of 1914 and learnt the rudiments of riding a horse in addition to the requirements of being a soldier. In 1915 he became a member of the 4th Queens Own Calvary Machine Gun Corps. He was later promoted to Lance Corporal and hence was number 1 of 6 on the machine gun team and responsible for carrying and sighting the tripod and for firing the machine gun. He was sent to France sometime after 1st January 1916 and engaged in numerous battles.
Although his cousin Pte. William White of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) died aged 18 on 29th July 1918 on the battlefields, Jack and also his younger brother Bill managed to survive the horrors and returned to marry his fiancee, my Grandmother Lily. They went on to have five children including my late father Jack (named after his own courageous father) and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He died on 15th February 1979 in his highrise flat in Easton, Bristol - a stone's throw from where he was born 85 years earlier.
I represent Jack's large family in saying that we recognise and are thankful for all he and Lily sacrificed for us to give us all a good life and how extremely proud we are of this once fearless soldier.
Sgt. John James White
Australian Imperial Force 22nd Btn. Australian Infantry
from:Aspendale, Victoria
(d.3rd March 1917)
Jack White died on 3rd March 1917, aged 29 and is buried in the Queant Road Cemetery in France. He was the son of Arabella Beddoe White and the late Charles White of Durban, Foster St., Aspendale, Victoria. Born at Baringhup, Victoria.
Listed as missing, presumed killed in action, his name is engraved on the wall at Villers-Bretonneux. In 1994, some 77 years after his death, his remains were found quite close to the Digger Memorial at Bullecourt. A re- internment ceremony with full military honours saw him finally laid to rest at Queant Road on October 11th, 1995. The photograph shows Jack with his wife Lillian Isabella Mildenhall and children, Colin (1913-1983) and baby daughter Myrle who was only 10 months old when Jack enlisted in 1916. Myrle was aged 80 when she attended the re internment service in France.
Pte. John Frederick White
British Army 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Portsmouth
(d.31st July 1917)
My Uncle John White was born at 11 Woodlands Street, Kingston, Portsmouth. He was the eldest child of John Frederick White RN and Mary Ann White and brother to Grace Dye, my mother. John was better known as Jack to family and friends. He developed a passion for music and was talented in both piano and clarinet and took the later to war.
He enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps on the 19th of August 1915 in the 3rd Wessex Field Ambulance with the regimental number 2375. The Territorial force was sent to France in November 1914, during the war it was renumbered as the 217th Field Ambulance RAMC. He was a Stretcher bearer After some weeks at the 1st Territorial base at Rouen he was posted to the 4th Field Ambulance, 8th division in France on 4th of October 1916. On the 10th December 1916 he was posted to the 26th Field Ambulance also in the 8th Division. His regimental number was changed to 461550 early in 1917 when all territorial force soldiers were allotted new numbers.
Jack was killed in action at the battle of Pilckem. His mother, my grandmother, never forgot her son and remembered him every year up till her death in 1949 by placing a memorial in the Portsmouth Evening News. This is one of them.
Short was your life my darling son,
But peaceful be your rest.
Your mother misses you most of all
because she loved you best
When all alone I sit and think
I seem to hear you say,
keep up your heart dear mother.
we will meet again some day
In all those dark days John experienced he made time to send many postcards and presents to his family. Wish I could tell him how proud the family are.
Pte. John White
British Army 6th Btn. Cameronians Scottish Rifles
from:Hamilton
(d.15 June 1915)
He was killed at the Second Action Givinchy
Pte. John White
British Army 9th Btn. Black Watch
from:Scotland
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Pte. John Joseph Henry "Topper" White
British Army 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Brentwood, Essex
My Grandfather, John White joined the Army at Stratford on the 25th July 1901 at the age of 18 years, 8 months old. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment, as a Bandsman Drummer. His Regimental number was 6503 and he carried this number within the 2nd Boer War, where he gained the Queens South Africa Medal and 2 clasps- Cape Colony and Orange Free State to when the numbers were changed in 1920, when it was changed to 5998017. On return from the Boer War, John was posted to India. He served throughout the 1st World War in the 2nd Battalion and was gassed on the Somme gaining all three medals. He earned 2 good conduct chevrons and was awarded a marksman's badge too. Family stories have been told that John was also a stretcher bearer, as Drummers were reported to have been and he also played the cornet, as again, Drummers would have had to do.
John was discharged from his career in the army on the 5th July 1922 as being no longer fit for war service, due to his chest problems resulting from being gassed on the Somme. However, John did not let this stop him becoming a Special Constable for over 10 years, where he lived in Brentwood, Essex. At the outbreak of WW2 he joined the Home Guard and won the WW2 Defence Medal.
John married and had 4 Sons. John died from complications after being gassed on the Somme resulting in his death in 1950, aged 67 his death certificate stating that his cause of death was (1) emphysema, (2) chronic Bronchitis (3) Gassed on the Somme.
Pte. Jonathan White
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Consett
Jonathan White was wounded in July 1916
Fus. Leonard Gilbert White
British Army 1st Batn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
(d.16th Nov 1918)
Leonard White had been a milkman in Shoreham Sussex, a bachelor aged 27, he enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers. In the action at Cambrai, Leonard was wounded in the head, only a few days before the Armistice. He was conveyed to hospital in Liverpool, he died of blood poisoning on 16 Nov 1918. He is buried in Mill Lane Cemetary in Shoreham-By-Sea. He is listed on the Town War Memorial. His Memorial Plaque has come down to me a great Nephew, who he never knew.
Pte. Leonard Gilbert White
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Shoreham By Sea
(d.16th November 1918)
My great uncle, Leonard White, enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Shoreham Camp, which was Training Camp situated on the South Downs. He served at Gallpoli, but was wounded just before the war's end, and died of wounds at a hospital in Liverpool. His body was transferred to Shoreham-by-Sea. He was aged 31, and a bachelor. His civilian job was as a milkman.
Fus. Leonard Gilbert White
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Shoreham by Sea
(d.16th November 1918)
Leonard White was a milkman. He enlisted at Shoreham Camp at Shoreham by Sea, Sussex in 1914. He served through the Dardanelles Campaign, also served in Egypt, then to the trenches on Western Front. He was wounded in Nov 1918 days before the Armistice was signed. He died of wounds in a Miltary Hospital in Liverpool on 16th of November 1918. He is buried in Mill Lane Cemetery at Shoreham by Sea. His mother was a midwife Mrs Caroline White of 5 Buckingham Cottages, Shoreham by Sea.
Page 37 of 76
Can you help us to add to our records?
The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them
Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial?
If so please let us know.
Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?"We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember.
Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.
Celebrate your own Family History
Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.
Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.
This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Hosted by:
The Wartime Memories Project Website
is archived for preservation by the British Library
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
- All Rights Reserved -We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.
