Name
James White
August 1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/08/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24150
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
X.X.X, L.2
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
St Dunstan’s Church Memorial Plaque, Hunsdon, Eastwick War Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1897, in Hunsdon to parents William and Mary, he had four sisters and three brothers one of whom was John who also died in the war, his father was a farm labourer.
By 1901 the family were living in Eastwick and in 1911 they had moved to Hunsdon Pound, Hunsdon and James was also shown to be a farm labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hunsdon into the 1st Battalion Northants Regt, which went to France on 14th August 1914 and fought on the Western Front throughout the war.
By 1916 the battalion had already fought at Mons, Aubers and Loos and in 1916 they were at the Somme and in August they were involved in the fighting for the village of Pozieres where James White died on 20th.
Additional Information
At the time of his death his parents were living in Birch House Cottages, Stanstead Abbotts. Both James and his brother John were killed during the war.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Terry & Glenis Collins, Anthony Hodgkins
