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George William White
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War Memorial: Place and
inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial: Pte. G. White R.M.L.I.
Church
window: George William White
Ongar & District War Memorial Hospital Roll of Honour (Blackmore) as G W
White [ERO A10815]
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Rank:
Private
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Regiment:
Royal
Marine Light Infantry 3rd R.M. Battalion.
Service No: PLY/5884 [CWGC]
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Service Details:
http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-01Jan.htm:
Sunday, 20 January
1918
Louvain, armed boarding steamer,
torpedoed and sunk by UC.22 in Aegean
219 men
lost, including WHITE, George W, Private, RMLI,
5884 (Plymouth), (Royal
Marines,
3rd Battalion, on passage)
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Personal and family information:
Son of
William Mansfield White and Susan White, of London; husband of Lucy White, of West Bank, Blackmore. [CWGC]
Marriages
Sep 1892 White, George William and Peacock, Lucy Louisa Lambeth 1d 700 [Free
BMD]
1881
Census: George W. White, 13, scholar, born Islington, son of William M White
[designer, engraver and tracer] and Susan.
1901
Census: George White and spouse Lucy living Middlesex
1911
Census: not located unambiguously, but there is a candidate in St Marylebone,
apparently without Lucy
Marriage
of daughter:
Louisa
Mansfield White, aged 26, a Blackmore resident, married William Richard
Rawden of Marylebone at Blackmore on 9th
October 1921. Her father is recorded as
“George William White deceased” with occupation recorded as “Royal Marine
Artillery” [ERO D/P 266/1/6].
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Date of Death:
20th January 1918
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Age:
51
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Where died:
Ship
torpedoed in the Mediterranean, 1917. [CWGC]
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Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Memorial:
Plymouth Naval
Memorial 29.[CWGC]
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List of Sources:
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission (CWGC), Essex Record Office, Free BMD, Naval
History.net
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