BORN HULL 1895. YOUNGEST CHILD OF THE LATE WILLIAM WHITE AND ADA CHERRY. HIS ELDER BROTHER JAMES WHITE LIVED AT 150 , MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, HULL & 229 BOULEVARD, HULL. EMPLOYED AS A CORN MERCHANT’S CLERK.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH (ALEXANDRA, PRINCE OF WALES OWN) YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES, ON 14/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI ON 22/08/1915, AGED 19. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, TURKEY.
UNMARRIED HE LEFT OLDER SIBLINGS, JAMES, CHARLOTTE, KENNETH AND WILLIAM WHITE.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WITHERNSEA WW1 MEMORIAL AND AT ST JOHNS CHURCH, NEWLAND, HULL.
First name:
ERIC
Military Number:
11439
Rank:
Private
Date Died
22/08/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
19
150 , MARLBOROUGH AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
