Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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George Ellis WHITE
Guardsman 19908 George Ellis WHITE
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Killed in Action, Sunday 5th August 1917, Belgium, age 23
| Home address: | 63 Ashton Road, Newton, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1894, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Parents: | Emma White and Samuel White |
| Marital status: | Single |
| Occupation: | Tinker's Boilerworks |
| Enlisted: | Hyde, Cheshire |
| Remembered: | Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, panel 11. |
| Link to Hyde: | Lived in Hyde |
Returned from USA to join the Grenadier Guards.
Killed by a shell when digging in the trenches with a his comrade Private G. Tolhaid who survived without injury.
Regiment number given as 19906 on Commonwealth War Grave.