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Military service
Service number:
2714579
Age:
26
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
3rd R.B.
Birth:
March 4, 1892
Lurgan, Armagh
Enlistment:
August 18, 1918
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
October 15, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
112.
Additional information
Son of William and Anna E. White, of "Rusheen," Downshire Rd., Holywood, Co. Down, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Sapper James Wallis White
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Roll of Honour Book
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Photo of James Wallis White
Portrait of James Wallis White while he was a sapper in the Canadian engineers. He came to the US in 1902 with his sister. Worked for Dupont in New Jersey. Attempted to enlist in the US Army in Ramsay, Montana. Twice turned down. Enlisted with the Canadian engineers. Contracted the flu on board ship on his way to the British Isles. Died in military hospital in England. -
Family Photo
James Wallis White is the boy on the rocking horse. This portrait of his family was taken in Lurgan, Ireland in 1899. The man in the back row, center, is my grandfather, Samuel George White.
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Sapper James Wallis White
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Wallis White
Digital gallery of
Sapper James Wallis White
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 521 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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