GEORGE HENRY WHITE was serving as a Private with The 5th(Service) Battalion, the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry when he was killed in action on 3rd May 1917, during the Battle of Fresnoy-Bullecourt. He was aged 30 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial for soldiers with no known grave. 

He was born in Over Norton, then moved to Adderbury where his father was the landlord of The Plough Inn. In 1905 he married Emma Timms in Deddington and lived at The Bank, Hempton and worked as a farm labourer. He had two daughters Elsie and Florence.

He had previously served with the Canadian Army.

Steve Kingsford