The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Second Lieutenant L S White
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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