STANLEY WHITE

Surname: WHITE
Forename: STANLEY
Initials: S
Date of Birth: 1888
Place of Birth: Sturminster Marshall
Place of Birth Source: Army Service Record
Address: 1911 Ceylon & India
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Employment / trade: Soldier
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Family (parents and grandparents): Son of Thomas and Sarah White, Lower Dairy Shapwick
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Regiment at call-up: Dorsetshire Regiment
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Rank at call-up: Private
Service no at call-up: 8332
Date of attestation: 04 May 1907
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Area reported to: Dorchester
Source: Army Service Record
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Other service details: Stanley enlisted for 7 years service with the Regular Army on 14 Jul 1907 and served in Ceylon and India. Embarked from Bombay 12 Oct 1914 and arrived in Mesopotamia 6 Nov 1914. Received a gun shot wound to scalp 18 Nov 1914 in action in Sahiel. In 3a BG Hospital.
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Service facts: Short Service

Age at death: 27
Date of death: 14 Apr 1915
Regiment at death: Dorsetshire Regiment
Battalion at death: 2nd Bn.
Rank at death: Private
Circumstances of death: Wounded in 1914 in Mesopotamia and killed in action in 1915 near Shaiba
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Field of action at death: Mesopotamia
Place of death: Near Shaiba
Location of grave: Basra Cemetery
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Other memorials: Sturminster Marshall War Memorial
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