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VC760 Archie Cecil Thomas White
Name Archie Cecil Thomas White No.
VC Issue No. 760 Awards VC MC
Regiment Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment, 6th Battalion
Later Green Howards
Now 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment - Disbanded, July 2012
Rank VC Won Temporary Captain
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death At his home, ‘Bruckley’, Upper Park Road, Camberley, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey, England
Cremated Woking Crematorium, Hermitage Road, St John's, Woking, Surrey, England
Date Buried/Cremated 25 May 1971
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. Tennyson Lake Garden, Garden of Remembrance
Gazetted 26 October 1916
VC Presented 2 June 1917 by King George V at Hyde Park, London, England
Memorials
P Named On Remembrance Tablet, North Cloister, Bay 19-173, Woking Crematorium, Surrey
P Blue Plaque On Old Familys Tailors Shop, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire
By The Way…
Spent his working life in Education, mainly the Army Education Corps
VC Held By
Green Howards Regiment Museum, Trinity Church Square, The Market Place, Richmond, Yorkshire, England
BORN 5 October 1890
DIED 20 May 1971 AGE 80
VC Won 27 September - 1 October 1916 AGE 25
Place VC Won Stuff Redoubt, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
