WHITE Ernest

  • First Name(s):
    Ernest 
  • Surname:
    WHITE
  • Service Number:
    203781
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st/7th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    25th April 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 5A and 6C.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Hampton, Worcestershire, enlisted Evesham, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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WHITE Ernest Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial with the additional information: Worc Regt

Further Information About WHITE Ernest

Ernest White served in the 1st/7th and 1st/8th Battalion as Private 20816 prior to his final service no of 203781. His medal index card gives his service number as 20816 and records his award of the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. His effects and war gratuity were sent to his father, William.

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Peter Stewart:
Formerly Private 15278, Worcestershire Regiment. Ernest White had joined the Worcestershire Regiment on 1st September 1914 but was found unfit to serve due to a heart condition so he was discharged on 19th October 1914, serving for just 48 days. It appears that the diagnosis of his condition was incorrect as he was able to re-join the Worcestershire Regiment at a later date.

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 28th April 1917
HAMPTON CASUALTIES
A letter has been received from Lance-Corpl. C.H. Shotton, of the Worcesters, stating that Pte. Ernest White, son of Mr. William White, of Hampton, is missing, and the writer hopes he is a prisoner and safe. All his comrades feel the loss of a good soldier and chum. He did not falter when he “went over.” Lance-Corpl. Shotton wishes his sympathy to be conveyed to Pte. White’s parents, to whom the loss must be a great blow following so closely upon the death of his sister.

Ernest was born in 1892 at Hampton, one of five children born to William and Annie White (nee Attwood) who were married in 1887. William was a Builder by trade and originated from Sedgeberrow. Annie was from Hampton. She died in 1907, aged 40, William died in 1941, aged 77. Both are buried together in Hampton Churchyard where there is a monument. A younger sister who died in 1900, aged 11 is buried nearby and has a monument. A sister Ethel also died in 1917, aged 17 but her last resting place is not currently known.

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.

Ernest White has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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Credits: Inscriptions on the church clock and the church bells courtesy of John Smith.