Leonard Hale White
Lieutenant Leonard Hale White, D.S.C. (20 August, 1889 – 30 December, 1915) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
White gained three and a half months' time on passing out of Britannia and receiving his first naval appointment to the battleship Venerable on 15 January, 1906.[1]
White was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 June, 1910.[2]
White was appointed to the battlecruiser H.M.S. Tiger, additional and temporary, for gunnery duties from 9 March 1915 through 16 December 1915, when he was appointed to the armoured cruiser Natal as gunnery officer. This would prove tragic for him, though as gunnery officer he might have had a chance of helping avert his fate, when he died when the ship exploded two weeks later when old cordite stores exploded.[3]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/170. f. 528.
- ↑ White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/563. f. 563.
- ↑ White Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/144/563. f. 563.
