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WHITE Sydney Pleno

 
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