9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
20/03/1897
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
19
Summary
Alexander White was the only son of Samuel and Agnes White. He was born on 20th March 1897 in Carnteel, County Tyrone. He was the oldest of three children, all born in the Aughnacloy area. The family lived in Dernabane, Aughnacloy. Private Alexander White was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was 19 years old.
Further Information
Alexander White was the only son of Samuel and Agnes White. Samuel White and Agnes Sleith were married on 19th April 1897 in the district of Dungannon.
Alexander White was born on 20th March 1897 in Carnteel, County Tyrone. He was the oldest of three children, all born in the Aughnacloy area.
Family: Samuel White, Agnes White, Alexander White (born 20th March 1897), Agnes White (born 11th July 1898), Rachael White (born 23rd January 1901).
The 1901 census lists Alexander as age 4 living with the family at house 38 in Dernabane, Aughnacloy Rural, Tyrone. Samuel White was a farm labourer.
The 1911 census lists Alexander as age 14 living with the family at house 9 in Dernabane, Aughnacloy Rural, Tyrone.
Alexander enlisted in Aughnacloy.
Private Alexander White arrived in France with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 5th October 1915.
Private Alexander White was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was 19 years old.
From the Tyrone Courier dated 20 July 1916:
Private White, killed, was a son of Mr Samuel White, Aughnacloy.
Private Alexander White has no known grave and are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
Private Alexander White is commemorated locally on the WWI Roll of Honour in Aughnacloy Presbyterian Church.
The CGWC record Private Alexander White as the son of Samuel and Agnes White of Dernabane, Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.
