Private Timothy WHITE, G/2785,  8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, died on or since, 26th September 1915.

Born Canning Town, Essex.

1910 June Quarter, St Luke's, Victoria Docks, West Ham, married Edith Alice Boreham, 5 Poplar Street, Canning Town, Essex / 44 Claremont Street, North Woolwich, E.

1911 Census - 22 Poplar Street, Canning Town, Victoria Docks, E. - Timothy White, head, age 22, married, dock labourer, worker, born Canning Town, Essex; Edith Alice White, wife, age 19, married under one year, 1 still born child, born Canning Town, Essex.

Children - William John White, born 17th October 1914, West Ham, Canning Town.

Enlisted  Chatham, Kent, age 25 years & 336 days, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 136lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, old burns left leg. Formerly general labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 26th September 1915.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1915, Worthing, overstaying his pass from 12.00 midnight till 4.30pm 24th inst, deprived of 3 days pay, forfeits 3 days pay; 30th May 1915, Shoreham, overstaying his pass from 12.00 midnight till 7.00pm 31st inst, 5 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 1 days pay; 4th July 1915, Blackdown, overstaying his pass from 11.00pm till 10.30pm 6th inst, deprived of 2 days pay, forfeits 2 days pay;  11th August 1915, Blackdown, overstaying his pass from 11.00pm till 10.30pm 12th inst, deprived of 2 days pay, 14 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 2 days pay; 30th August 1915, posted BEF; 26th September 1915, posted missing.

12th June 1916, pension of 15/- a week awarded to widow and one child.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France.

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