Private George Stephen White
- Rank
- Private
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1917 Western Front
- Service number
- 156
- Unit
- 44 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Messines, Belgium
- Date of death
- 5 July 1917
- Age
- 27
- Plaque number
- MW36
- Co-located plaques
- MW36A - PTE Roy Hobson
- Dedicated by
- His family in May 2000
- More information
Private George Stephen White 156 (1889-1917, born Northampton, Western Australia) enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Perth, Western Australia, on 15 January 1916 and was trained at Blackboy Hill (Greenmount), Western Australia. He was assigned to A Company, 44th Australian Infantry Battalion and embarked for the Western Front in June 1916 and in November 1916, he was sent to France and then to Belgium. On 5 July 1917, he was killed in action when a German counter-attack at the junction of A and B Companies’ sectors on the Front Line temporarily succeeded, resulting in three soldiers from the Battalion, Private White, Private Charles Horace Cornish 170 of Midland Junction, Western Australia and Private Vivian Preston 711 of Perth being killed in action and 15 soldiers captured before the attack was repulsed.
Private White has no known grave and his official memorial is the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium where his name is shown on Panel 27. His Place of Association is Northampton.
His honour plaque in Kings Park was dedicated by his family in May 2000. He is the son of George White (1853-1893) and Elizabeth Mary White (nee Moyle, later Davidson) (1860-1950) of Northampton.
Private White is remembered with honour.