Date of birth:

February 13th, 1926 (Clydebank, Scotland)

Date of death:

November 4th, 1944

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Sterksel (Providentia)
Row: B. Grave: 3.

Service number:

14742130

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

David Davidson White was born on 13th february 1926. He was the oldest son of David White (7 june 1896 - 4 february 1965) and Mary White-Hattan (24 october 1896 - february 1995) of Whitecrook, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire. He had five brothers (Hugh (may 1933), George (28 september 1934), John (13 may 1936), Allan (22 june 1937) and Donald (28 march 1941)) and three sisters (Catherine (7 march 1922- december 2016), Christine (25 september 1924) and Sadie (10 april 1928)). The family lived at Second Avenue, Clydebank. They were evacuated before the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941 and after that lived at 25 Gordon Street, Clydebank (Gordon Street is not there anymore).
David White attended Boquhanran School. When he left school he was employed with the Singers Sewing Machine Co., which was then making munitions.

He joined the army on 6 april 1944 and was trained in England till 8 october 1944. On 18 may 1944 he was transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders. After his training he was sent to the frontline in North-West Europe and served in A-Company, 5th Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders.

According to his family, David White was fatally injured when a German aircraft strafed the ground. His family was informed of his death on 9 november 1944.

On the day David White died, the 5th Battalion was involved in a crossing of a canal. The War Diary records four men slightly wounded and no other casualties. Maybe David White was injured a week earlier when the battalion had been heavily involved at Loon op Zand and Waalwijk. The War Diary of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders doesn't mention any German air activity between 1 october and 4 november. It does mention a few injuries caused by enemy artillery shelling.

And on 29 october there was a German infiltration during the night and the Germans fired on a carrier patrol which was searching for two missing men. One of the men was found wounded and brought back. Maybe this wounded man was David White, although no evidence for that is found till now.

While he was in The Netherlands David White met a Dutch family. This family later visited Davids family in Clydebank.

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• Photo 1: Jeroen Koppes
• - Commonwealth Wargraves Commission
  - David's brothers Allan and Hugh

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