Family Search: When Private Charles Ward White was born on 16 September 1896, in Innerkip, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Benjamin White, was 42 and his mother, Caroline Kading, was 35. He lived in Oxford, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as machinist. He died on 12 November 1917, in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 21, and was buried in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium.
Source: November 1917 casualty.
His brother, Private William Wallace White, reg. no.675136, also of the 18th Battalion, would die on September 14, 1918.
PTE. CHARLES W. WHITE another former member of the 168th who has made the supreme sacrifice. His mother lives on Peel Street. A brother who enlisted with him in the same unit is recently reported wounded.
