The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant L S White


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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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