The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T White

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Thomas WHITE, G/2042, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th April 1916.

Born Holloway, Middlesex.

Enlisted Deptford, Kent, age 21 years & 90 days, height 5ft 8 inches, weight 127lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, tattoo marks left forearm. Formerly labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 11th December 1915; BEF, 12th December 1915 to 30th April 1916.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th March 1915 to 18th March 1915, Purfleet Military Hospital, bronchitis; 8th May 1915, Colchester, overstaying his pass from midnight 8th inst until midnight 9th inst, 1 day confined to Barracks, forfeits one days pay; 29th July 1915, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st October 1915, Shoreham, overstaying his pass from 12.00 midnight until 8.00am 1st November 1915, 2 days confined to Barracks, forfeits one days pay; 12th December 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

18th May 1916, letter reporting death sent to Henry White, 16 Armada Street, Poplar, E, returned no such Street.

6th October 1920, Statement of Relatives - (completed by Miss E (Elizabeth) Card, Fiancée, 53 Rectory Buildings) - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, none; Mother, none; Brother, none; Sister - none; Grandparents - none; Uncles / Aunts - none; Nephews / Nieces - none.

28th February 1922, letter from brother, William White, 30 Wyeverne Road, Cardiff - "Being the elder brother of the late No.2042 Pte Thomas White 8 Batt (Service), Royal West Kent Regiment, who was reported killed on the 30tnh April 1916, in France or Belgium. Would you kindly inform me whether his medals, effects etc have been disposed of as he was unmarried and both parents deceased. Of his relatives now living is:- myself -- address above. Sister -- Rose Cottage, Fourteen Hall Lane, Wickham Market, Suffolk, Brother Henry, London, address unknown. Thomas White was the younger of five. Another brother, killed in France in 1918, of the Cheshire Regiment. I serving from 1914 - 1918 in the Welsh Regiment. Trusting Sir you will kindly give me the desired information."

3rd March 1922, letter to William White, 30 Wyeverne Road, Cardiff - "With reference to you letter dated 28th February 1922, I am directed to inform you that under War Office Instructions, all decorations awarded to the late soldier above named, are the property of :- Miss E Card, 53 Rectory Buildings, Crossfield Street, Deptford, SE8."

Buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery, I. C. 10., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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