Private William White,1st/7th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in Belgium on 14th February 1916 and is buried in Maple Copse Military Cemetery, nr., Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. He had been born in Berwick and had enlisted in Alnwick. At that time the Battalion had a four day tour of duty in frontline trenches near Sanctuary Wood in the Ypres Salient and suffered 5 Other Ranks killed and 11 wounded from intermittent shelling. His Headstone is inscribed ” Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”. The photo shows the impressive Memorial raised to the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Division of which the Battalion was part until February 1918 when it was transferred to the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division as a Pioneer Battalion. It was erected near the village of Weiltje where nearby the Division had fought its first action on 26th April 1915 during the Battle of St Julien only days after landing on the Continent.
