Name |
Benjamin WHITE |
Rank/Number |
Leading Stoker 302947 |
Regiment |
Royal Navy HMS Tipperary or HMS Hecla |
Enlisted |
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Age/Date of death |
32 01 Jun 1916 |
How died/Theatre of war |
Killed in action at sea |
Last known address |
1907 HMS Goliath |
Cemetery |
Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hants |
Grave or Memorial Reference |
17 |
Location of memorial |
Little Marlow School |
Date/Place of birth |
18 May 1884 Coldmoorholme, Little Marlow |
Date/Place of baptism |
20 Jul 1884 Little Marlow |
Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
served in Royal Navy from Jan 1903 |
Parents |
late Daniel & Mary White nee Keen |
Parent's occupation |
general labourer |
Parents' Address (last known) |
1901: Coldmoorholme, Little Marlow |
Wife |
Ellen Amelia White nee Wickenden |
Wife's Address (last known) |
14 Holland Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth |
Notes |
killed at Battle of Jutland. CWGC gives names of parents as Harry & Alice White, but this is incorrect. They are his brother and sister and would have been his Next of Kin as his parents had died. |