Army Number: 201088 (formerly 3546)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Edward White, of 4, Albion Place, Ilkeston. Husband of Alice White, of 15, Albion Place, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Enlisted at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 29, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10C, 10D and 11A.

Private White is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.