Photograph of Cross of Sacrifice at Arras Memorial By Carcharoth, Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Frederick Samuel White (-1917)
Darlington man served with 1st/5th DLI commemorated on Arras Memorial
From “Soldiers who died in Great War”, Frederick enlisted in Darlington (no date is given). He was private 201033 1st/5th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (DLI). He was killed in action on 23 April 1917 and, according to Register of Soldiers effects, he left a widow, Elizabeth A White. He was awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal. Frederick is remembered on the Arras Memorial and in the Book of Remembrance, of 5th Battalion DLI in St Thomas’s Church, Stockton.
Civil Parish: Darlington
Armed force/civilian: Army
Gender: Male
Contributed by Harold P, Durham
