CORPORAL W.J. WHITE, 1/2ND (CITY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT (ROYAL FUSILIERS

CORPORAL W.J. WHITE, 1/2ND (CITY OF LONDON) BATTALION THE LONDON REGIMENT (ROYAL FUSILIERS). Three: 1914-15 Star (2096 Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion London Regiment) British War and Victory Medals (2096 Corporal, 2nd Battalion London Regiment). Medals mounted loose style, as worn, on original silk ribbons, British War Medal with attractive old dark tone, generally Almost Extremely Fine.

Group accompanied by copied Medal Index card, Silver War Badge roll entry and 16 pages of copied service papers.

William John White originally enlisted just four days after the outbreak of WW1, on 8/8/1914. For some reason his original enlistment was unsuccessful, and he re-enlisted three days later, on 11/8/1914. Service papers confirm that, in addition to service at home, White saw service in Malta from 5/9/1915 to 5/1/1915, and France, from 6/1/1915 to 14/10/1915 (the 1/2nd Londons saw service as a unit in Malta prior to landing in France, again as a unit, on 6/1/1915). White was invalided to England on 14/10/1915 as a result of influenza. He was later discharged from the army on 9/2/1917, suffering from shell-shock “permanently unfit for military service”, a Medical Board in January 1917 noting “patient complains of nervousness, insomnia. He is anaemic and has muscular tremors. He does not improve.” White was subsequently granted a disability pension. Medal Index card gives his home address as Roslyn, 45 Gleneagle Road, Streatham, London SW, and his post-war pension claims give his home address as 51 Deacon St, Walworth, London SE.