Private Thomas White

Army Number : 18872

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Barnsley, Yorkshire. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth White, of 17, 2nd Avenue, Rainworth, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Mansfield, went to France 17th February 1915 and was killed in action whilst holding Sevastopol Trench, near Lens, France, 5th April 1916, age 22.

Buried/Commemorated : Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot II. Row H, Grave 26.

Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

Private Thomas White is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Blidworth War Memorial, Blidworth, Nottinghamshire.
St. Simon and St. Jude’s Church War Memorial, Rainworth, Nottinghamshire.