5674611 Rifleman Harold Edward WHITE, 2nd Bn. London Irish Rifles, RUR: 01/12/1944

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Rifleman WHITE, HAROLD EDWARD
Service Number 5674611
2nd Bn. The London Irish Rifles
Royal Ulster Rifles
Died 01/12/1944
Aged 25
Buried at SANTERNO VALLEY WAR CEMETERY
Cemetery/memorial reference: I, A, 6.
Additional Info: Son of Edwin and Elizabeth White, of Bridgwater, Somerset.
INSCRIPTION: HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
Location: Italy

 

Thank you - Quis Separabit.

Not surprisingly, Rifleman White, given his home add town, had an SLI army number....and given his age, may well have joined up in 1939.

Two Riflemen were killed on 1st December 1944 in the mountains near to San Clemente...Buried close by to Harold White at Santerno CWGC Cemetery is his comrade Frederick Rudd.

Rifleman RUDD, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Service Number 6982654

Died 01/12/1944

Aged 29

2nd Bn. The London Irish Rifles
Royal Ulster Rifles

Son of Albert and Louisa Rudd; husband of Gladys Daisy Rudd, of Woolwich, London.

1 December – ITALY.

0600 Bttn still in locations: Bttn HQ – 000286 Casa Careggiana. E Coy – house 008287. G Coy – house 004287. H Coy – house 008298. Bttn mortars at 001289 and MMGs in E Coy’s area.

0800 Sitrep: Considerable shelling and mortaring, especially on E Coy. MMG harassing fire on Bttn HQ during night from M Merlo direction.

0930 Preparations to hand over sector to 2 Innisks.

1800 Main body of 2 Innisks moving in to take over Bttn position. A false alarm was created by enemy machine gunning of Ambush House (008287), which caused holding section to quickly evacuate it. Relief was held up until a platoon reoccupied the house and handed it over to 2 Innisks.

1900 Relief completed. Mortars were handed over but MMGs were brought back with Bttn. During the course of the day, the Battle Patrol OP received a direct hit during enemy shelling and the 2 Rifleman occupants were killed.

 

1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
56 Barclay Street, Bridgwater M.B., Somerset
NAME DOB OCCUPATION
Edwin White 30 Nov 1880 Stationery Engine Driver
Elizabeth White 31 Jul 1886 Unpaid Domestic Duties
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Frederick G White 11 Apr 1920 Fruit Salesman
Gladys I Bulled (White) 29 Jul 1922 Shirt Folder & Packer
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Anthony J Perkins 29 Dec 1935 Under School Age

 

1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
114 Woodhill, Woolwich, London
NAME DOB OCCUPATION
Albert Rudd 21 Jan 1886 Munition Worker Machine R A C
Louisa Florence Rudd 12 May 1889 Unpaid Domestic Duties
Gladys F Freeman (Rudd) 20 Jul 1911 Saleslady Toys Etc
Albert E Rudd 12 Mar 1913 Munition Worker R A C
Frederick W Rudd 02 Jun 1915 Builders Labourer
Francis Rudd 12 Oct 1916 Cable Hand
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