Name
Frederick (poss Frank) White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235106
Lincolnshire Regiment
8th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Westmill, Not on the Hertford memorials, Not on the Buntingford memorials
Pre War
Frederick White was born in 1896 in Westmill, the son of George and Elizabeth White. Frederick had three older sisters, Sarah, Emma and Hilda, two older brothers, Benjamin and Walter and one younger brother, Bertie. In the 1901 census, Frederick was recorded as living with the family in Westmill and by 1911, Frederick was occupied as a Farm Labourer.
The Soldiers Died in the Great War records suggest that he was born in Hertford and lived in Buntingford when he enlisted.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted into the Hertfordshire Regiment and formerly 266462.
Additional Information
The CWGC gives the information recorded above, however the medal roll index card suggests that Frederick was known as Frank and served as 4666 and 266462 of the Hertfordshire Regiment and then 235106 of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Walter White (Frederick’s elder brother) served in the Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in Palestine in 1918 and is also commemorated on the Westmill War Memorial. The Soldiers Died in the Great War records suggest that he was born in Hertford and lived in Buntingford when he enlisted. Therefore there is some doubt of this man's record here.
Acknowledgments
Nigel Leaney
