wilfred

Brigadier-General W. A. White was chief of a British recruiting mission to the United States, see the Morning Oregonian, August 16, 1917, Image 8 (with photo) oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1917-08-16/ed-1/se...

Wilfred Arthur White, born 1870, s. 'Who's who in the British War Mission in the United States of America, 1918', p. 115 archive.org/stream/whoswhoinbritish00newy/whoswhoinbritis...

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A cropped version of this photo ran in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, October 07, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 61 with the caption: "Brigadier-General W. A. White is in charge of the British recruiting station established in New York." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-10-07/ed-1/se...

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Did he survive?

Jazz Guy Interesting case. He never left Australia. He enlisted with his mother's consent, but when she came down with pleurisy she requested his discharge as he was her sole support. This was denied and he was later court-martialled for desertion. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=1811453

Aww what a sad, cruel story - he's a 'baby' and far too young to leave his mother, especially when she's so ill - armies are cruel!! If this was my boy and they put him in jail for dissertion I'd break him out . . . if I was ill like his mother was, and they did that, I'd probably have died of a broken heart.

Lest We Forget, Service record; recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewIma...

Olive "Kathleen" (Stone) Lessard and an unknown man (possibly her cousin, Jim Stone of upstate New York), sitting on the bridge over the Skootamatta River, in front of the old powerhouse in Flinton, c.1925.