Name
Walter White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203158
Bedfordshire Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Panel 17.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Westmill
Not on the Braughing memorials
Pre War
Walter was born in 1893 in Braughing the son of George and Elizabeth White. Walter had three older sisters, Sarah, Emma and Hilda, one older brother, Benjamin and two younger brothers, Frederick and Bertie. In the 1901 census, Walter was recorded as living with the family in Westmill and by 1911, Walter was occupied as a Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted in Royston
Additional Information
The CWGC gives the information recorded above, however the medal roll index card suggests that Walter served as 15773 and 203158 of the Bedfordshire Regiment Frederick White (Walter’s younger brother) served in the Lincolnshire Regiment, was killed in Fla
Acknowledgments
Nigel Leaney
