Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph White, Goyeau Street, Windsor, Ontario. He served with the 21st Battalion, Essex Fusiliers. Private White took an active part in athletic sports, playing baseball, hockey and football. The same day the announcement of Walter White's death appeared in the Evening Record, the following editorial also appeared: 'Windsor Stricken - Windsor has laid its first sacrificial offering on the altar of patriotism. One family is mourning for a son dead, while two other await in dread suspense for further news of the actual condition of sons wounded. A despatch this morning carried to the city the cruel intelligence that a score of Canadian boys had fallen and sixty-one had been wounded in an engagement on Sunday.
Later particulars showed that Windsor had a melancholy interest in the news, saying that among the dead was Walter White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. White and that Arthur Paddon and Victor E. Marentette were among the wounded. Pte White was killed at Modder River, during the Battle of Paardeburg, South Africa.
The name of Walter White is remembered on the South African War Memorial found in Jackson Park in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
VENDUSIEDRIFT GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE (PAARDEBERG) South Africa
Located 9.1 km from the Paardeberg Museum. Follow the dirt road and turn right at the Cannon sign, travel 600 m then turn right and travel a further 200 m.
Pour plus d’informations, visitez la Commission des sépultures de guerre du Commonwealth (site disponible en anglais seulement).
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