Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant T. J. White, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action in France, November 1917

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘1914-1919 Lieut. Thomas James White, Royal Field Artillery, Killed in France, Nov. 20th 1917.’; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) extremely fine (4) £280-320

M.C. London Gazette 27 October 1917, details 18 March 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the forward observation party was heavily shelled and sustained many casualties, he went forward, bound up the wounded and had them removed to safety. He then advanced with another party, still under heavy shell fire, and sent back valuable information.’

Lieutenant White was killed in action in France on 20 November, 1917, and is buried in Metz-En-Coutre Communal Cemetery British Extension.