White, John Albert
Telegraphist
No. C/JX428380 HMS Sarawak, Royal Navy
Died as the result of an accident on Friday/Saturday 30/31 March 1945 (aged 20)
Buried:
Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina Extension Section B.S. Grave 21)
Commemorated:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
BIOGRAPHY
Records vary as to his date of death – 30/31 March 1945.
Telegraphist John Albert White was born on 25 May 1924 at Bow, London, and he was a son of William Frederick and Lily Maud White (nee Labourn) of 4 Godfrey Street, West Ham, London.
His marriage to Vera Rose Farnell of Leyton Essex was registered in the 4th quarter of 1944 in West Ham, London.
Telegraphist John Albert White was accidentally drowned when a yacht capsized in Belfast Lough on 30 March 1945 in Belfast Lough; his body was found washed up at Craigavad, Holywood on 30 April 1945.
Telegraphist John Albert White was buried on 3 May 1945 in Belfast City Cemetery (Glenalina Extension Section B.S. Grave 21). The grave was owned by the ‘Commissioners for the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom’. There is a personal inscription on his CWGC headstone:
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND
ALSO DEAR SON OF
WILLIAM AND LILY WHITE