Son of Theodore White and Jennie.
Obituary - Corporal Theodore Carll White, 31 years of age, who served in. company D, 306th infantry, died in the army hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Island, on Monday of pneumonia as the result of being gassed and receiving other wounds while in action.
The effects of mustard gas and the removal of a rib caused his rapid decline. Corporal White was the second Babylon man in the first draft of men sent from the Babylon exemption board's headquarters to Camp Upton on September 10, 1917, and he proved a good soldier throughout. He was a mechanic in his company and popular with his companions. He was wounded by shrapnel on the right side in the Argonne Forest and continued to fight after being hit. Later he was gassed, and shell shocked just before the armistice. He returned from France on June 26, as a stretcher patient. He was in bed five months. He was taken to the Greenhut Hospital in New York city upon arrival in America and later sent to Plattsburg and finally removed to the hospital on Staten Island. The body was brought to the home of his mother, Mrs. Theodore White, and the funeral was held on Thursday at St. Ann's chapel when full military honors were paid the young hero. The Rev. E.J. Burlingame gave a fine address in which it was said it was a glorious honor to die for one's country. BabyIon post No. 94, American Legion, sent a handsome wreath, and the pallbearers who bore the flag draped casket were former men of the service, Major D. W. Wynkoop. Elmer Weeks, Percy Kendall, Francis J. Preston, Harry Dinota, Fred J. Wood and Henry Landwehr. Ashley a Seymour sounded bugle taps at the grave in Babylon cemetery. Argyle hose company, of which Corporal White had been a member passed a series of sympathetic resolutions on his decease and also turned out with other members of the fire department at the funeral. The firemen marched at the head of the funeral procession to the cemetery. Corporal White is the thirteenth Babylon man to die in the service.
Corporal White' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Theodore White a brother, James White, and his sister, Mrs. James Powell. The flags on the village pole at and the Catholic, and Episcopal churches were at half-mast during the funeral.
Also - Corporal Theodore White, son of Mrs. Theodore White, of Babylon, died on Monday in the General Hospital, Staten Island. Corporal White served over a year overseas in Co. D., 306th Infantry 77th Division. He was twice wounded and was once gassed. He had been in the hospital since his return to America.
New York
Pvt. 306 Infantry
77 Division
Name: Theodore C White
Birth Place: West Islip, New York
Birth Date: abt 1888
Service Start Date: 10 Sep 1917
Service Start Place: Suffolk Co, New York
Service Start Age: 29
(Theodore C White in the New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919; South Side Signal., October 03, 1919, Page 1; The Suffolk County news., October 03, 1919, Page 6)
Obituary - Corporal Theodore Carll White, 31 years of age, who served in. company D, 306th infantry, died in the army hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Island, on Monday of pneumonia as the result of being gassed and receiving other wounds while in action.
The effects of mustard gas and the removal of a rib caused his rapid decline. Corporal White was the second Babylon man in the first draft of men sent from the Babylon exemption board's headquarters to Camp Upton on September 10, 1917, and he proved a good soldier throughout. He was a mechanic in his company and popular with his companions. He was wounded by shrapnel on the right side in the Argonne Forest and continued to fight after being hit. Later he was gassed, and shell shocked just before the armistice. He returned from France on June 26, as a stretcher patient. He was in bed five months. He was taken to the Greenhut Hospital in New York city upon arrival in America and later sent to Plattsburg and finally removed to the hospital on Staten Island. The body was brought to the home of his mother, Mrs. Theodore White, and the funeral was held on Thursday at St. Ann's chapel when full military honors were paid the young hero. The Rev. E.J. Burlingame gave a fine address in which it was said it was a glorious honor to die for one's country. BabyIon post No. 94, American Legion, sent a handsome wreath, and the pallbearers who bore the flag draped casket were former men of the service, Major D. W. Wynkoop. Elmer Weeks, Percy Kendall, Francis J. Preston, Harry Dinota, Fred J. Wood and Henry Landwehr. Ashley a Seymour sounded bugle taps at the grave in Babylon cemetery. Argyle hose company, of which Corporal White had been a member passed a series of sympathetic resolutions on his decease and also turned out with other members of the fire department at the funeral. The firemen marched at the head of the funeral procession to the cemetery. Corporal White is the thirteenth Babylon man to die in the service.
Corporal White' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Theodore White a brother, James White, and his sister, Mrs. James Powell. The flags on the village pole at and the Catholic, and Episcopal churches were at half-mast during the funeral.
Also - Corporal Theodore White, son of Mrs. Theodore White, of Babylon, died on Monday in the General Hospital, Staten Island. Corporal White served over a year overseas in Co. D., 306th Infantry 77th Division. He was twice wounded and was once gassed. He had been in the hospital since his return to America.
New York
Pvt. 306 Infantry
77 Division
Name: Theodore C White
Birth Place: West Islip, New York
Birth Date: abt 1888
Service Start Date: 10 Sep 1917
Service Start Place: Suffolk Co, New York
Service Start Age: 29
(Theodore C White in the New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919; South Side Signal., October 03, 1919, Page 1; The Suffolk County news., October 03, 1919, Page 6)
Son of Theodore White and Jennie.
Obituary - Corporal Theodore Carll White, 31 years of age, who served in. company D, 306th infantry, died in the army hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Island, on Monday of pneumonia as the result of being gassed and receiving other wounds while in action.
The effects of mustard gas and the removal of a rib caused his rapid decline. Corporal White was the second Babylon man in the first draft of men sent from the Babylon exemption board's headquarters to Camp Upton on September 10, 1917, and he proved a good soldier throughout. He was a mechanic in his company and popular with his companions. He was wounded by shrapnel on the right side in the Argonne Forest and continued to fight after being hit. Later he was gassed, and shell shocked just before the armistice. He returned from France on June 26, as a stretcher patient. He was in bed five months. He was taken to the Greenhut Hospital in New York city upon arrival in America and later sent to Plattsburg and finally removed to the hospital on Staten Island. The body was brought to the home of his mother, Mrs. Theodore White, and the funeral was held on Thursday at St. Ann's chapel when full military honors were paid the young hero. The Rev. E.J. Burlingame gave a fine address in which it was said it was a glorious honor to die for one's country. BabyIon post No. 94, American Legion, sent a handsome wreath, and the pallbearers who bore the flag draped casket were former men of the service, Major D. W. Wynkoop. Elmer Weeks, Percy Kendall, Francis J. Preston, Harry Dinota, Fred J. Wood and Henry Landwehr. Ashley a Seymour sounded bugle taps at the grave in Babylon cemetery. Argyle hose company, of which Corporal White had been a member passed a series of sympathetic resolutions on his decease and also turned out with other members of the fire department at the funeral. The firemen marched at the head of the funeral procession to the cemetery. Corporal White is the thirteenth Babylon man to die in the service.
Corporal White' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Theodore White a brother, James White, and his sister, Mrs. James Powell. The flags on the village pole at and the Catholic, and Episcopal churches were at half-mast during the funeral.
Also - Corporal Theodore White, son of Mrs. Theodore White, of Babylon, died on Monday in the General Hospital, Staten Island. Corporal White served over a year overseas in Co. D., 306th Infantry 77th Division. He was twice wounded and was once gassed. He had been in the hospital since his return to America.
New York
Pvt. 306 Infantry
77 Division
Name: Theodore C White
Birth Place: West Islip, New York
Birth Date: abt 1888
Service Start Date: 10 Sep 1917
Service Start Place: Suffolk Co, New York
Service Start Age: 29
(Theodore C White in the New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919; South Side Signal., October 03, 1919, Page 1; The Suffolk County news., October 03, 1919, Page 6)
Obituary - Corporal Theodore Carll White, 31 years of age, who served in. company D, 306th infantry, died in the army hospital at Fox Hills, Staten Island, on Monday of pneumonia as the result of being gassed and receiving other wounds while in action.
The effects of mustard gas and the removal of a rib caused his rapid decline. Corporal White was the second Babylon man in the first draft of men sent from the Babylon exemption board's headquarters to Camp Upton on September 10, 1917, and he proved a good soldier throughout. He was a mechanic in his company and popular with his companions. He was wounded by shrapnel on the right side in the Argonne Forest and continued to fight after being hit. Later he was gassed, and shell shocked just before the armistice. He returned from France on June 26, as a stretcher patient. He was in bed five months. He was taken to the Greenhut Hospital in New York city upon arrival in America and later sent to Plattsburg and finally removed to the hospital on Staten Island. The body was brought to the home of his mother, Mrs. Theodore White, and the funeral was held on Thursday at St. Ann's chapel when full military honors were paid the young hero. The Rev. E.J. Burlingame gave a fine address in which it was said it was a glorious honor to die for one's country. BabyIon post No. 94, American Legion, sent a handsome wreath, and the pallbearers who bore the flag draped casket were former men of the service, Major D. W. Wynkoop. Elmer Weeks, Percy Kendall, Francis J. Preston, Harry Dinota, Fred J. Wood and Henry Landwehr. Ashley a Seymour sounded bugle taps at the grave in Babylon cemetery. Argyle hose company, of which Corporal White had been a member passed a series of sympathetic resolutions on his decease and also turned out with other members of the fire department at the funeral. The firemen marched at the head of the funeral procession to the cemetery. Corporal White is the thirteenth Babylon man to die in the service.
Corporal White' is survived by his mother, Mrs. Theodore White a brother, James White, and his sister, Mrs. James Powell. The flags on the village pole at and the Catholic, and Episcopal churches were at half-mast during the funeral.
Also - Corporal Theodore White, son of Mrs. Theodore White, of Babylon, died on Monday in the General Hospital, Staten Island. Corporal White served over a year overseas in Co. D., 306th Infantry 77th Division. He was twice wounded and was once gassed. He had been in the hospital since his return to America.
New York
Pvt. 306 Infantry
77 Division
Name: Theodore C White
Birth Place: West Islip, New York
Birth Date: abt 1888
Service Start Date: 10 Sep 1917
Service Start Place: Suffolk Co, New York
Service Start Age: 29
(Theodore C White in the New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919; South Side Signal., October 03, 1919, Page 1; The Suffolk County news., October 03, 1919, Page 6)
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Theodore C. White, New York, Pvt., 306 Inf., 77 Div., September 29, 1919
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