Name
William Charles White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25344
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. A. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Thundridge, War Memorial, St Johns Church, High Cross
Pre War
Born on the 12th September 1895 in High Cross, Herts. Son of Charles and Emily (Mardell) White. He was Baptised on the 4th October 1895 in High Cross, Herts.
The 1901 Census records William, aged 5, at school and living with his parents and sister at Standon Green End, High Cross, Herts. The in 1911 as 15 and living with his parents, brother and two sisters at Standon Green End, High Cross, Herts. His occupation is given as a farm labourer.
William enlisted in Hertford. Attested in to the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, with the service No 25344.
Wartime Service
The Herts & Essex Observer in January 1915 recorder that he went to the front in July of that year and that he had previously been gassed and wounded, before he was killed in action in August 1918 at the second battle of the Somme – The Battle of Albert.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird
