Service Details
Name:
 WHITE
Given Name:
 EDWARD GEORGE
Initials:
 E G
Service No:
 68026
Rank:
 Stoker 1st Class
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Hermes
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Date of Death:
 1942-04-09
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Attacked by carrier-borne aircraft from a Japanese force of three battleships and five carriers which had entered the Bay of Bengal a week before. Around seventy bombers were sent to dispatch the Hermes which sank within ten minutes.
Additional
Information:
Son of Ernest and Jean White; husband of Rachel K. M. White, of Malvern, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Kwazulu-Natal, DURBAN, Stellawood, Cemetery and Crematorium
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 74, Column 2.

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