Percival William White

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

24590

Unit at enlistment:

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Force:

B.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

February 6th, 1918

Cemetery:

Neuville-Bourjonval British Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - C.18.

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Somerset

Birth city:

Taunton

Address at enlistment:

59 Mt. Pleasant Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

36 Coombe Street, Exeter, England

Trade or calling:

Bricklayer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Letters and documents

Circumstances of service: Killed

BX April 10, 1918

The death in action is reported of Signaller Percival William White, a former member of the Bricklayers’ Union in Brantford. Signaller Percival White went over to England in 1915 to join the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry. He was married in November of 1917, and was killed on Feb. 6 of this year. His brother, Arthur, is serving with the First Canadians. The boys formerly lived on Mt. Pleasant Road.