Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- CWGC and other Headstones -
- Carisbrooke Mount Joy Cemetery : Ernest James White -

IN MEMORY OF
OUR DEARLY LOVED
AND ONLY SON
SERGT. ERNEST J WHITE
2ND WORCESTER REGT.
WHO DIED MARCH 8TH 1918
AT FULHAM MILITARY HOSPITAL, LONDON
FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN FRANCE
AGED 22 YEARS

HE'S RESTING NOW - FREE FROM ALL PAIN
AND SIN AND STRIFE - HIS DUTY DONE

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, March 16, 1918 Page 8

MILITARY FUNERAL. - The funeral of Sergt. E. White, Worcestershire Regiment, took place at Carisbrooke Cemetery, with military honours, on Thursday. Deceased passed away at Fulham Military Hospital as the result of wounds received in France on August 16 last. The mourners were deceased's parents, sister, and grandparents, Messrs. F. Bull, H. Harding, and Sergt.-Major Mew (uncles), Miss Bull, Miss K, Bull, Mrs. J. Bull, and Mrs. A. Bull (aunts), and Miss M. Harding (cousin). There were beautiful flowers, including those from the staff and scholars of the Newport C.E. School and from the nursing staff and comrades in D2 Ward, Fulham Military Hospital. Sergt. White was an old National School boy, and as the funeral cortege passed the boys stood at the salute in the play-ground, and the flag was flying at half-mast. Deceased joined the Worcestershire Regiment at Parkhurst in 1911, proceeded to France in August, 1914, and was wounded there in the following July. After serving in Gallipoli and Egypt he returned to France in March, 1916.