The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant L S White

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KILLED IN ACTION AND BURIED AT THE TIME IN

ASYLUM BRITISH CEMETERY, YPRES

WHOSE GRAVE WAS DESTROYED IN LATER BATTLES

THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Second Lieutenant Leslie Spenc(s)er WHITE, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, wounded accidentally on 14th March 1915, by the accidental explosion of a bomb, died 15th March 1915, age 24, near Ypres, Flanders, France.

Born 21st September 1891, Coventry, Warwickshire, eldest Son of Frank Faulder White, (FRCS., Eng, surgeon Coventry Hospital / Lewisham Military Hospital),  and Eva Dalgairns, (daughter of the late Major Travers), Honourable Matron Dobson War Hospital, of Charlton Road, Blackheath / The Close, Saffron Walden, Essex.

Educated King HenryVIII's School, Coventry, Warwickshire & Framlingham College.

Unmarried.

5th August 1914, joined Artists Rifles; served for a time with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers; 27th January 1915, Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to Royal West Kent Regiment; October 1914, went to France; served a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant with the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in the trenches and was accidentally killed by a hand grenade explosion.

Buried at  Bedford House Cemetery, Asylum British Cemetery Memorial Enclosure. No. 2 I. F. 17A., Belgium.

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