WHITE, Victor William
| Service Number: | 3238 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 January 1890 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| Died: | Kalgoorle, Western Australia, 18 December 1937, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213635923/victor-william-white |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 3238, 48th Infantry Battalion |
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Born in 1890 in Melbourne Victoria, Victor was the second of seven children of John (Jack) Samuel White and first wife Frances Mary Browning (b1864 in Essex, England). Jack (a Civil Servant) and Frances married in 1889 in Perth WA where they settled (after a brief period in Melbourne, Victoria in 1890/1893) and raised their famaily and Jack was a Civil Servant. Following Frances' deah in 1922, Jack remarried in 1923.
Victor was a School Teacher in Bunbury WA when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916, and following his Discharge Victor taught in Narrogin, where in 1923 he married Ida Comfort Hayes (b1897 in Bunbury, WA) - Ida was a Nurse at the Hospital in Katanning. Victor and Ida lived in Narrogin, Bunbury, Wittenoom and Kalgoorlie where Victor was a Teacher. Victor died in 1937 and Ida in 1992.