Name
Henry Charles White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/11/1917
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
156380
Royal Garrison Artillery
144th Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
V. C. 20.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Saviour's Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin
Pre War
He was a married man with two children and his home was at Lancaster Ave, Hitchin. His wife later remarried to become Elizabeth Edwards.
Before joining up he had been employed as an outfitter's manager by H.H. Wightman, High Street, Hitchin for eleven years. He was also a member of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, a chorister at St. Mary's Church in Hitchin with a fine tenor voice and Secretary of the Symphonic Society. He had been born in Christchurch, Chelsea, Middlesex, but enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Henry was given the Regimental Number 156380 and posted to the I 44th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery which was equipped with 6" howitzers. He was killed in action in Belgium just a fortnight after the official end of the Second Battle of Passchendaele.
He was buried in Plot 5, Row C, Grave 20 in the Bard Cottage Cemetery in Belgium. The cemetery is at Boezinge and contains the graves of a number of artillerymen.
Additional Information
Elizabeth remarried becoming Mrs Edwards, late of Hitchin. Herts.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
