# Percy White
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{{short description|Australian rugby league footballer}}
{{About|the Australian rugby player|the British nuclear scientist|Percy White (nuclear scientist)|the New Zealand cricketer|Percy White (cricketer)|the actor|Percy Hynes White}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
|name = Percy White
|fullname = Percy Rowett White
|image =
|caption = Easts player number 23
|birth_date = 16 August 1887
|birth_place = [Paddington](/source/Paddington%2C_New_South_Wales), [Sydney](/source/Sydney), Australia
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1918|4|24|1887|8|16}}
|death_place = [Villers-Bretonneux](/source/Villers-Bretonneux), France
|height =
|weight =
|position = {{rlp|PR}}
|club1 = [Eastern Suburbs](/source/Sydney_Roosters)
|year1start = 1908
|year1end = 16
|appearances1 = 89
|tries1 = 10
|goals1 = 1
|fieldgoals1 = 0
|points1 = 32
|updated = 17 January 2012
|source = Whiticker
| module = {{infobox person
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| relatives = [Eddie White](/source/Eddie_White_(rugby_league)) (brother)
}}
}}
'''Percy Rowett White''' (1887–1918) was an Australian pioneer [rugby league](/source/rugby_league) player. He played in the [New South Wales Rugby League](/source/New_South_Wales_Rugby_League) competition at the time of the code's Australian foundation in 1908, and won a premiership with [Sydney](/source/Sydney)'s [Eastern Suburbs](/source/Sydney_Roosters) club in 1912. He later served in [World War I](/source/World_War_I), and was killed by artillery fire in France in 1918.
==Rugby League career==
Born in the inner-city Sydney suburb of [Paddington](/source/Paddington%2C_New_South_Wales), White played 89 matches for the [Eastern Suburbs](/source/Sydney_Roosters) club between 1908 and 1916. He played as a [prop forward](/source/Rugby_league_positions) in East's 14–12 loss to [South Sydney](/source/South_Sydney_Rabbitohs) in rugby league's [first premiership decider](/source/Eastern_Suburbs_1908_Season) in [season 1908](/source/1908_NSWRFL_season). He was a squad member of the Easts sides who won premierships in [1911](/source/1911_NSWRFL_season), [1912](/source/1912_NSWRFL_season) and [1913](/source/1913_NSWRFL_season), as well as the [City Cup](/source/City_Cup)-winning sides of 1914, 1915 and 1916. White is recognised as Eastern Suburbs' 23rd player; his teammate [Eddie White](/source/Eddie_White_(rugby_league)) was his brother, while his father, John White, was one of the club's earliest presidents.
==War service and death==
White was one of many Australians to serve on the [Western Front](/source/Western_Front_(World_War_I)) during the World War I. He was a driver with the 29th Company Australian Army Service Corps, whose base was in the Belgian town of [Loker](/source/Loker). He was aged 30 when he was hit by an artillery shell at an unknown location in 1918.[[http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/wounded_and_missing/person.asp?p=582304 "Red Cross Wounded and Missing – Percy Rowett White"]. [Australian War Memorial](/source/Australian_War_Memorial). Retrieved 27 July 2013.] He died of his wounds on 24 April 1918 at [Villers-Bretonneux](/source/Villers-Bretonneux) in northern France.[{{cite news|last=Middleton|first=David|title=Footy stars taken on battlefield|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/footy-stars-taken-on-battlefield/story-e6frexnr-1225857603994|accessdate=3 January 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=Sydney|date=24 April 2010}}]
The following article appeared in the ''[Sydney Morning Herald](/source/Sydney_Morning_Herald)'' under the heading of "War Casualties" on 8 May 1918:
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|Mr. John White, of Trelawny, Gurner St, Paddington, has received cable advice from his son, Lieut. [E. C. White](/source/Eddie_White_(rugby_league)), advising the death in action of his youngest son, Percy Rowett White. Driver White was a member of the Master Builders' Association, of Sydney, and was a representative League footballer, having been a member of the Eastern Suburbs team since its foundation.
|30px|30px|}} White is buried at [Daours](/source/Daours) Communal Cemetery Extension in France. His name is commemorated on panel 181 in the [Australian War Memorial](/source/Australian_War_Memorial).[[http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=516307 Commemoration detail]. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 27 July 2013.]
==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book| last=Cashman, Richard|title=Australian Sport Through Time – The History of Sport in Australia|year=1997
|publisher=Australia [Random House](/source/Random_House)|isbn=978-0-09-183378-7 }}
*[Whiticker, Alan](/source/Alan_Whiticker) and Hudson, Glen (2006). ''The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players''. Sydney: Gavin Allen Publishing.
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