Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Henry White
In memory of:
Second Engineer John Henry White
July 16, 1917
North Atlantic
Military Service
27
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Ribston (London, England) (102837)
Additional Information
September 28, 1889
Liverpool, England
Son of George William Lloyd White and Ann Evans of Barker Avenue, Central Park, British Columbia.
On 16 July 1917, Ribston was en route from Melila, North Africa, to Glasgow, Scotland, via the Clyde, when she was torpedoed by U-45 approximately 85 miles (136 km) west of Fastnet Rock in south-east Ireland, position 50°52'N/11°38'W. All 25 crew members, including the captain, lost their lives.
Commemorated on Page 73 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
N/A
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
Digital Collection
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Newspaper clipping – From the Vancouver Daily Province August 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Photo of John Henry White – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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