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Private John F White
42592 Labour Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Pte J F White
Argus Newspaper
Son of Charles and Leannah

Aged 22 years

Died 9th November 1918

Commorated at St. Aubert British Cemetery
Grave III. A. 11.
Born at Bozeat.
Of the 9th Labour Coy. transf. to (70053) 117th Coy. Labour Corps

The Rushden Argus, 22nd November 1918, transcribed by Susan Manton

Wollastonian Accidentally Killed

Pte. J. F. White, of the Labour Battalion, eldest son of Mr. Charles White, Queen Street, Wollaston, fell from a railway track and was accidentally killed in France on November 8th. He was 22 years of age and the first one to join up in Wollaston under Lord Kitchener's scheme, three years last August. Price to enlisting he was a shoe operative in the employ of the Northants Boot Productive Society at Wollaston. [cwgc - died 9th Nov]


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