The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant C A White

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Serjeant Clarence Ashton WHITE, G/19151, (1172 / 35474), 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 27th September 1918.

Born Ashford, Kent, son of Clarence & Pemelia Jane White, Hegdale Cottage, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent.

1911 Census - Pested, Challock, Ashford, Kent. - Clarence White, head, age 42, married, hurdle maker, worker, born Stowting, Kent; Pemelia Jane White, wife, age 47, married 22 years, 9 children, 8 still alive, born High Halden, Kent; Clarence Ashton White, son, age 13, farm hand, general, worker, born Boughton Aluph, Kent; Frederick George White, son, age 11, school, born Boughton Aluph, Kent; Mace Joseph White, son, age 11, school, born Challock, Kent; Charles John White, son, age 8, school, born Challock, Kent; Pemelia Ada Olive White, daughter, age 4, born Challock, Kent.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent, age 17 years & 1 months, height 5ft 9 inches. Resided Pested Green, Challock near Ashford, Kent.

Home 23rd October 1914 to 3rd January 1917; BEF 4th January 1917 to 10th June 1917; Home 11th June 1917 to 15th January 1918; BEF 16th January 1918 to 27th September 1918.

23rd October 1914, enlisted; 23rd October 1914, posted 2/1 Kent Cyclist Battalion, Service No.1172; 15th May 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 3rd September 1915, promoted Acting Corporal; 11th March 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 11th March 1916, appointed paid Lance Sergeant; 15th April 1916 to 5th May 1916, attended School of Musketry at Bisley & classified as 1st Class Instructor; 19th June 1916, promoted Acting Sergeant; 3rd January 1917, embarked / disembarked; 4th January 1917, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th February 1917, joined 11th Battalion, in the Field; 9th February 1917, confirmed in rank of Sergeant; 7th June 1917, wounded in action; 8th June 1917, Camieres, 4 General Hospital, gun shot wound, left arm severe; 10th June 1917, transfered to England, Hospital Ship "Peiter de Conick", gun shot wound left arm; 11th June 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment, as Private; 11th June 1917 to 25th July 1917, Cenacle Hospital, Wallasey, shrapnel wound left forearm, detained at Fazeakerley for operation; 25th July 1917 to 30th July 1917, 1st Western Hospital, Liverpool; 30th July 1917 to 18th August 1917, Cenacle Hospital, Wallasey, shrapnel wound left forearm, wound quite healed, discharged; 29th August 1917 to 22nd October 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, as Sergeant, wound left forearm; 23rd October 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th January 1918, neglect of duty, reprimanded; 16th January 1918, embarked / disembarked; 18th January 1918, to Italy with Battalion; 18th January 1918, Italian Expeditionary Force; 2nd March 1918, joined Battalion in the Field; 1st April 1918, returned to France with Battalion; 28th June 1918, wounded at Duty; Awarded Military Medal.

7th May 1919, Military Medal be sent to next of kin, Mr C White, Hegdale Cottage, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent.

26th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Clarence White, Hegdale, Badlesmere; Mother, Pemelia J White, Hegdale, Badlesmere; Brothers - Frederick White, age 20, Hegdale Cottage, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent; Mace White, age 18, Hegdale Cottage, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent; Charles White, age 16, Hegdale Cottage, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent; Sisters - Lillian Wheater?, age 29, 191 Clarenden Street, Dover; Amelia White, age 25, Sandbach, Cheshire; Mabel White, age 23, Colmans Hotel, Folkestone; Pemelia White, age 12, Hegdale, Badlesmere.

Buried at Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery, II. H. 9., Nord, France.

AWARDS: MM

Link to Challock Roll of Honour

London Gazette 24th January 1919.

His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Military Medal for bravery in the Field to the under mentioned Ladies, Non-Commissioned Officers and men:

19151 Sjt. White, C. A., 1st Battalion. (Challock).

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