Tom Warren White
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Born28 November 1902
Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland
Died14 June 1993 (aged 90)
Buried
Tamborine Mountain Cemetery, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland
AllegianceAustralia
Tom Warren White | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 November 1902 Brisbane, Queensland |
| Died | 14 June 1993 (aged 90) |
| Buried | Tamborine Mountain Cemetery, Tamborine Mountain, Queensland |
| Allegiance | Australia |
| Service | Australian Army |
| Years of service | –1957 |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Service number | VX20316 |
| Commands | 2/1st Battalion |
| Battles / wars | Second World War |
| Awards | Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order Officer of the Legion of Merit (United States) |
Brigadier Tom Warren White, LVO (28 November 1902 - 14 June 1993) was an Australian soldier who served during the Second World War.
Tom was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 28 November 1902,[1] the third son of John Warren White and Elizabeth Matilda Rosa Georgina née Barker. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Australian Army Staff Corps in 1924.[2] He was seconded to the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons) between 1926 and 1927 in India and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1937 to 1940.[2] Tom was attached to the British War Office in 1939 and served with the British forces in France in 1940.[2]