Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 08/10/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 02/06/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney Showground, NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Other Name(s)
- Known as 'Jack'
- Place of Birth
- Tharwa NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Woollahra NSW (previously 'Spring Station' via Tharwa ACT)
- School(s) Attended
- Tharwa School
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Next of Kin
- Daniel White (father), 'Spring Station' via Tharwa ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 31995
- Final Rank
- Sergeant
- Final Unit
- Australian Flying Corps
Notes
Jack White was born in 1893 at his parents' property 'Spring Station', Tharwa where he grew up. He was at Tharwa School with Jack Cregan and taught by Alex Gifford, both of whom served in the war. Like his cousins the Noone brothers, he moved to Sydney before the war and was a clerk in the Public Service when he enlisted in October 1916. He left Sydney in February 1917 and arrived in France in July where he joined the 8th Field Artillery Brigade. White was wounded in action near Ypres in September when he "happened to get in the road of Jerry's whizzbang" and "he made it his business to clout the first and middle finger of my right hand on the second joint of each". He was sent to Guildford War Hospital in England and, in April 1918, was transferred to the Australian Flying Corps with whom he worked as a clerk. White returned to Australia for discharge in June 1919. He married and lived in Randwick in Sydney, but was in Melbourne when he died on 23 October 1941 at the Repatriation Hospital at Heidelberg. White was buried in Botany Cemetery in Sydney.
Description - height 5 feet 6¾ inches, weight 134 pounds, chest 33½-36½, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, mole on the left upper arm and in front of his neck, Catholic.
Sources
Lyall Gillespie, 'Early Education and Schools in the Canberra Region', 1999 (p.88 Tharwa School photo 1908)
Queanbeyan Age - 2 October 1917, 23 October 1917, 30 November 1917, 29 January 1918, 9 April 1918
Sydney Morning Herald - 24 October 1941, 27 October 1941
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)