SAMUEL WHITE 

Samuel's Story.

Birkenhead News  18 May 1918

“SUCH LIVES COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WASTED.”

Mrs. White, of No. 220, New Chester Road, Port Sunlight, has received intelligence that her husband, Pte. S. White – better known in his home district as S. Lancaster White – was killed in action in France on March 24^th. Formerly in the 13^th Cheshires, Pte. White was serving with the 10^th Cheshires when he met with his end.

Thirty- three years of age and leaving four children, he was before enlistment engaged in the timber sheds at Port Sunlight. The chaplain (the Rev. A. E. Pickard) of the 10^th has also communicated with Mrs. White, stating that Lieut. Colonel Williams, the C.O., wished him to express the sincerest sympathy with her in the irreparable loss she had sustained. He adds that Mrs. White might feel justly proud of her husband and his battalion; they were heroic and fine-spirited fellows, and such lives could never have been wasted.