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| On 7th/8th March 1917, on the Dialah River, Mesopotamia, Private White, a signaller in the 6th Battalion, during an attempt to cross the river, saw the two pontoons ahead of him come under heavy fire with disastrous results. When his own pontoon had reached mid-stream, with every man except himself either dead or wounded, and not being able by himself, to control the boat, he tied a telephone wire to the pontoon, jumped overboard and towed it to shore. By doing this he saved the life of an officer and brought to land the wounded and also the rifles and equipment of all the men in the boat.
Jack White was born in Leeds on 23rd Dec 1896 and died in Manchester on 27th Nov 1949. He reached the rank of Lance-Corporal. |
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