Pte. William Henry White Service No. 3208997 Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) 21st. Reserve Bn.
William was born on 24 September 1898. Died 17 February 1919.
He was the son of Mrs. F.S. White of 233 First Street, Medicine Hat, Alberta and the late E.B.T. White. His mother Flora was born in Kilmore, Oban, Scotland and emigrated in 1890. His father (Elijah) was born in Alberta, Canada. William had 2 brothers John and Milton.
William’s death certificate states he died, age 20, at Military Hospital, Studley Place, Ripon. Cause of death was 1 Influenza (6 days) 2 Bronchopneumonia. There was no post mortem and certified by E.K. Hart, MRCH. Informant was T. Vince, present at death, Stoney Place, Alberta, Canada.
During WW1 William was serving in the Canadian Army. The war had ended 3 months previously and William and his Alberta regiment were on route from Hampshire via Ripon, South Yorkshire to join the convoy to Canada, assembling and sailing from Oban. Unfortunately, William became ill in Ripon and was hospitalised there.
His aunt Elizabeth, his mother's sister, lived in Oban and owned a burial plot in Kilmore Old Churchyard. William was laid to rest there and has a CWGC headstone. His aunt and other family members are in interred in the cemetery and lie beside William.
I visit this gravestone every year and call him “my soldier laddie”
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