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Edgar Disraeli White

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Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 45), Page: 16 - No known copyright restrictions

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Edgar Disraeli AWMM
  • Surname
    White AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 32766 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    7 July 1895 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra Outram, Otago Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    John White (father), 46 Cannongate Street, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • Messines AWMM
    • 1914-1919 Western Front AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 32766 AWMM
  • Military service
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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Farm hand/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Edgar White was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John White, of Canongate St., Dunedin, New Zealand.

      New Zealand at the Front (a magazine written and published and illustrated in France by men of the New Zealand Division) 1917 issue, page141.

      Embarked Wellington, 15 November 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 29 January 1917, and marched in to Sling Camp.
      Proceeded overseas to France, 1 March 1917; joined 1st Bn, Otago Infantry Regiment, in the field, 21 May 1917.
      Killed in action, 7 June 1917.

      Parents: Mr & Mrs John White, Canongate Street, Dunedin AWMM
    • Edgar was one of four brothers who served in the First World War - John (Jack) Phillips White, Robert Nicholson White and Philip Sydney White. Public - Paul - Researcher - 30 April 2021 - Hickford, Paul, They Marched to War, 2019, pp. 18 & 92.
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Death

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  • Death
    7 June 1917 AWMM
    Belgium, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
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  • Obituary
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Memorials

Memorial

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    Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium AWMM

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07 April 2023Ian BanksTaumarunui New ZealandResearcher
30 April 2021PaulWest Auckland, New ZealandResearcher

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