Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private S. G. White, Royal West Surrey Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (G-25092 Pte. S. G. White. The Queen’s R.) in flattened named card box of issue and outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. S. G. White, 1 Canning Road, Croydon, Surrey’, extremely fine

The 1914-15 Star awarded to Lance-Corporal G. White, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918
1914-15 Star (G-3298 Pte. G. White. R. Suss. R.); Memorial Plaque (George White) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-£140

George White attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 31 August 1915. He was killed in action on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France.