9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
20/03/1897
Died:
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age:
19
Summary
Alexander White was the only son of Samuel and Agnes White. He was born on 20th March 1897 in Carnteel, County Tyrone. He was the oldest of three children, all born in the Aughnacloy area. The family lived in Dernabane, Aughnacloy. Private Alexander White was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916. He was 19 years old.
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
