Name
Ernest James White
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
05/06/1940
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Trooper
558575
Royal Armoured Corps
1st Lothians and Border Horse
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DUNKIRK MEMORIAL
Column 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He had been born in Hertfordshire, but resided in Bedfordshire. He had attended St. Mary's School in Old Knebworth. He almost certainly had military experience before the outbreak of war as he was sent to France in January 1940. His Service Number was 558575 and he served in the 151 Lothians & Border Horse Royal Armoured Corps. He was reported missing soon after the Dunkirk evacuation.
His Commanding Officer wrote, probably after he had been released from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1945, that Ernest had only been with the regiment for a short while, had been recommended for promotion and that he was killed at Bailleul Wood when the weapon pit he was in received a direct hit from a mortar shell.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Column 6 of the Dunkirk Memorial to the Missing, Nord, France.
He was the son of E. and Edith White of Langley, Herts.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Roll of Honour Land Forces W.W.2.’ by J. Devereux & G. Sacker, Herts Pictorial dated 15th May 1945
