Private Thomas Jackson White
Number: 9550
Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 3 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 22 years 3 months
Trade or calling: Nil
Place of birth: In the Parish of Bushmills/ Dunluce, in or near the Town of Bushmills, in the County of Antrim
Address: Church Street, Dungannon/ 49 Springfield Road, Belfast
Family: Single. Next of kin, brother James Dallas White, of 254 Springfield Road, Belfast. Father James White, gardener, mother Ellen Jane White (nee Dallas) (both dec.?)
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 7 3/4". Complexion fresh, eyes grey/ blue, hair brown.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 28 February 1900
Date home: 18 May 1901
Actions: Lindley, Bethlehem
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901, 1902 clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 19 June 1901
Place: United Kingdom
Reason for discharge: At his own request
On 20 February 1900 The Northern Whig reported that:
On Monday afternoon a large crowd assembled at Dungannon Railway Station to bid farewell to Troopers Charles Newell, Jas. Hamilton, and Tom White, of the B Company Imperial Yeomanry. Each of the three was presented with a pair of field glasses in a case, and as the train left for Belfast hearty cheers were given for Her Majesty, Lord Roberts, and the volunteers, followed by the singing of "Soldiers of the Queen." Trooper William Wilkinson, who left by an earlier train, was presented with a handsome dressing-case, and Trooper Jack Stevenson, who is suffering from influenza, received a case of pipes at his residence, Northland Row.
White was among the 400 men of the 13th Battalion captured by Boer forces at Lindley in late May 1900. He was released on 30 August when the British captured Nooitgedacht.
On 16 April 1902 at the Curragh Camp White re-enlisted, in the Army Service Corps (No. C.139). He stated that he was a clerk and had served a four-year apprenticeship with Mr Richardson at Dungannon. He embarked for South Africa ten days later, serving there until discharged on the termination of his period of engagement on 15 April 1903.
The Tyrone Courier, 8 March 1900
Image of White from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, 7 June 1900.
This page last updated 29 May 2026.