Albert White (VC)

{{EngvarB|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = |name = Albert White |honorific_suffix = |image = Victoria Cross Medal without Bar.png |image_size = |alt = |caption = |native_name = |native_name_lang = |birth_name = |nickname = |birth_date = {{birth date|1892|12|01|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Liverpool]], England |death_date = {{Death date and age|1917|05|19|1892|12|01|df=y}} |death_place = [[Monchy-le-Preux]], France |burial_place = Remembered on the [[Arras Memorial]] |burial_label = |burial_coordinates =  |allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom|23px}} |branch = {{army|United Kingdom|23px}} |service_years = |rank = [[Sergeant]] |service_number = 24866 |unit = [[South Wales Borderers]] |commands = |battles = [[World War I]] |battles_label = |awards = [[File:UK Victoria Cross ribbon bar.svg|30px]] [[Victoria Cross]] |memorials = |spouse =  |relations = |other_work = |signature = |signature_size = |signature_alt = |website =  |module = }} [[Sergeant]] '''Albert White''' [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (1 December 1892 in Liverpool<ref name="Liverpoool">{{cite web | url=http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.com/local-vc-winners.html | title=VC Winners – Liverpool and Merseyside | accessdate=1 March 2013 | archive-date=13 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313061603/http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.com/local-vc-winners.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> – 19 May 1917) was an English recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.

==Details== White was 24 years old, and a [[sergeant]] in the 2nd Battalion, [[South Wales Borderers|The South Wales Borderers]], [[British Army]] during the [[World War I|First World War]] when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 19 May 1917 at [[Monchy-le-Preux]], France, Sergeant White, realising during an attack that one of the enemy's machine-guns, which had previously not been located, would hold up the whole advance of his company, dashed ahead to capture the gun. When within a few yards of it, he fell riddled with bullets, having willingly sacrificed his life in an attempt to secure the success of the operation.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 30154|date=26 June 1917 |page=6382|supp=y}}</ref><ref>http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/776782 CWGC entry</ref>

[[File:Albert White VC memorial.jpg|thumb|left|Memorial to Albert White in the garden of the Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas, Liverpool, unveiled on 19 May 2017, 100 years to the day from his death]] {{Clear}}

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==Bibliography== *{{cite book|last=Gliddon|first=Gerald|title=Arras and Messines 1917|series=[[VCs of the First World War]]|year=2012|orig-date=1998|publisher=[[The History Press]]|isbn=978-0-7524-6604-0}} *{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=James|title=Liverpool VCs|year=2008|publisher=[[Pen and Sword Books]]|isbn=978-1844157808}}

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