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Name Albert White No. 24866 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 826 Awards VC
Regiment South Wales Borderers, 2nd Battalion, D Company
Later Royal Regiment of Wales
Now 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh - Disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth 54 Lamb Street, Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Monchy-le-Preux, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (CWGC) Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 27 June 1917
VC Presented 21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Thomas
Memorials
P Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (bay 6), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Named on Liverpool War Memorial, Panel 32, Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named on Wooden Panel & named in Roll of Honour in the Havard Chapel, Brecon Cathedral, Powys, Wales
Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Liverpool Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, Merseyside
P Victoria Cross Honours Board, SWB Musuem, Brecon, Powys
By The Way…
His job before the war was as a Coal Trimmer on ships which involved moving the coal about the boat from the bunkers to the Stokers
VC Held By
Not known
BORN 1889
DIED 19 May 1917 AGE 27
VC Won 19 May 1917 AGE 27
Place VC Won Monchy-le-Preux, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
