Name
Herbert Sidney White
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/07/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
Military Foot Police
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S.E. 1566
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Pre War
His home was at 15, Ickleford Rd, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in June 1915 and went to France the same year. He contracted dysentery and was invalided home. He was discharged from the army as unfit in April 1917. His name does not appear in the ‘Soldiers died’ database and he could not be identified in the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. An ‘In Memoriam’ notice in a local newspaper states that he "died from the affects of the Great War". He was buried in Grave S.E. 1566 in Hitchin Cemetery on the 29th July 1918.
Additional Information
He appears to missing from the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
