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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Charles White -

Unknown person Name : Charles White.

Son of Kate White of Sandown, Isle of Wight.

Born 1894 Sandown.


 
  Census Information :

1901 : Charlie White, aged 6, is with his mother Kate White and her parents Barnabas and Margerite White at Avenue Road, Sandown.

1911 : Charles White, aged 17, is with his mother Kate White and her mother Margaret White at 105 Avenue Road, Sandown. Charlie White is an Errand Boy for a Fishmonger, his mother is an Ironer at a Laundry.

  Service details :

Rifleman 1996 Charles White, 1/8th Bn. Hampshire Regiment (Isle of Wight Rifles).

  Casualty Details :

Died : 23 September 1915 aged 20

Buried at : Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. CWGC record ...
  Commemorated on these Memorials :

Sandown War Memorial
St John's Church, Sandown, War Memorial
IW Rifles Memorial Carisbrooke Castle
IW Rifles Memorial, Drill Hall, Newport


  Documents and Newspaper cuttings :

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, October 9 1915

Rfn. C. White, D Co., of Avenue-road, Sandown, is officially reported to have died from dysentery while on the way to hospital at Malta.


ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, October 8, 1915 Page 3

Rifleman C. White, also of the I.W. Rifles, and a native of Sandown, is reported to have died from dysentery while on the way to hospital at Malta.
  Acknowledgments :

Janet Griffin for additional newspaper research

  Page status :
Page last updated : 30 September 2011


 
 

 
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