In Memory Of
WHITE, EDWARD GEORGE
Service Details
Age:
31
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
68026
Rank:
Stoker 1st Class
Unit:
H.M.S. Hermes
Regiment:
South African Naval Forces
Date of Death:
1942-04-09
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 74, Column 2.
Cemetery:
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
Devon
Country:
United Kingdom
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
