War Service
A builder and architect White enlisted at age 32 in 1916. He was enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 1st Division Engineers of the AIF. On 31 October 1917 he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A14 Euripedes with the July 1917 reinforcements. He survived the war and was a Lieutenant at the time of his demobilisation in 1919.
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