WHITE Herbert Harry

  • First Name(s):
    Herbert 
    Harry 
  • Surname:
    WHITE
  • Service Number:
    16262
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Gloucestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    16th May 1915
  • Age At Death:
    35
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium, Panel 22 and 24.
  • Place of Birth:
    Badsey, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Adopted son of Mrs E. White, of Childswickham, Broadway; husband of Evelins Alfreda White, of Wormington, Broadway, Worcestershire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

WHITE Herbert Harry Is Named On These Memorials

Childswickham Memorial Hall

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Mentioned as Harry White.

Further Information About WHITE Herbert Harry

Herbert Harry White was born in January 1880 in Badsey, the youngest of three sons of Richard and Elizabeth Mason. Shortly after his birth his mother died and he was reared by his paternal aunt Elizabeth and her husband Enoch White in Childswickham (Elizabeth was Harry’s father’s sister). At some stage after 1891 he changed his surname to White. He left a wife and two children Eve and Alfred. He had two older brothers Ernest and Charles.

Herbert White has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.

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Credits: Additional information courtesy and copyright of Harry's great niece, Valerie Harman, granddaughter of his brother, Charles Mason.