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.