ORIGINAL AVENUE OF HONOUR NAME PLATE C.1929
Service number 3638
On the 14thMay 1917 Sydney married Annie Holland in Mayfair, England.
Returned to Australia on the 23rd August 1919.
Discharged on the 17thOctober 1919.
On returning to Australia Sydney lived at Tooradin, then Clyde. In 1936 he lived at “Grassmere”, Inglis Road, Berwick and his occupation was a dairy farmer.
The Argus (5thJuly 1954)
“White Sydney Pleno on July 3 at Berwick, loving father of Les, father-in-law of Una and Pop of Valerie and Garron.”
Died on the 3rd July 1954 at Berwick, Victoria.
Cremated on the 5th July 1954 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
| Name | WHITE, Sydney Pleno |
| Service Number | 3638 |
| Rank | Private |
| Roll | 21 Infantry Battalion 1-12 Reinforcements (June 1915-April 1916) |
| Conflict | First World War 1914-1918 |
| Embarked | 29thDecember 1915 |
| City | Melbourne |
| Ship | HMAT Demosthenes A64 |
| Age | 31 years |
| Birth Place | 1886, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |
| Father | William S White, Bridge Farm House, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England |
| Mother | Unknown |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Coachsmith |
| Residence | 35 Wallace Avenue, Toorak, Victoria |
| Enlisted | 12thJuly 1915 |
| Height | 5 feet, 5 ¼ inches |
| Complexion | Fresh; Eyes- Blue; Hair- Brown |