Name
Bertie Charles White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
66378
Royal Field Artillery
107th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAM (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham, Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham, Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross, Not on the Widford memorials, Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Born in 1896 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire son of George and Ellen White later of High Street, Widford, Ware and was living in Old Hall Farm, Much Hadham in 1901 and 1911.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 25 Jan 1915 in London entered France on 30 Aug 1915. In November 1916, he was badly gassed and was invalided back to England on 28 Jan 1917, going to Exeter Hospital. Later he was transferred to Brompton Hospital.
He was discharged as physically unfit on 21 Mar 1917. As was his wish, he was taken back home to Much Hadham on May 15th where he died two days later, apparently in a hut near the Dell Hole at Moor Place. He was buried with full military honours in the Much Hadham Parish Churchyard.
Additional Information
The personal message on his headstone reads: “Ever remembered by his brother Ralph and sisters Aggie Walker and Addie Lambert.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Jonty Wild
