Name
Jesse White
30 July 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33975
Essex Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
I. O. 53.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Jesse White has born in Bishop's Stortford, Herts on 30 July 1885 to Jesse and Martha White and baptised on 7 October 1885 at Hockerill, Herts. On the 1911 Census he was living with his parents at 52 Jervis Road, Bishop's Stortford and working as a Corn Merchant's labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop's Stortford and served with the 11th Battalion, Essex Regiment. The battalion were involved in an attack on 21 April which captured thirty-five German prisoners and two machine-guns, and disposed of a strong machine-gun nest on the Double Crassier Railway. Two counter-attacks were repelled, but on 22 April another attack was unsuccessful and the 11th Bn lost 61 men. Jesse was probably wounded on 21 or 22 April and died of his wounds on 23 April.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £2 15s.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
