In Memory of
WILLIAM WHITE
Private
25801
2nd/7th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment
who died on
Tuesday, 27th August 1918. Age 19.
| Additional Information: |
Son of William and Rose White, of Walk Mills,
Kingswood, near Wotton-under-Edge, Glos. |
Commemorative Information
| Cemetery: |
AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France |
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: |
IV. C. 19.
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| Location: |
Aire is a town about 14 kilometres
south-south-east of St. Omer. The Communal Cemetery is 0.75 kilometres
north of the town, on the road to St. Omer and the four Commonwealth
plots are on the east side.
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| Historical Information: |
From March 1915 to February 1918, Aire was a
busy but peaceful centre used by Commonwealth forces as corps
headquarters. The Highland Casualty Clearing Station was based there as
was the 39th Stationary Hospital (from May 1917) and other medical
units. Plot I contains burials from this period. The burials in plots
II, III and IV (rows A to F) relate to the fighting of 1918, when the
54th Casualty Clearing Station came to Aire and the town was, for a
while, within 13 kilometres of the German lines. The cemetery now
contains 894 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and a few
French and German war graves. There are also 21 Second War burials,
mostly dating from the withdrawal to Dunkirk in May 1940. The
Commonwealth plots were designed by Sir Herbert Baker. |
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