Albert Telfer White MM (SN 2012) was born in Ballarat, attending the Bunker’s Hill State School in Queensland before enrolling at Ballarat College. He was just 18 years of age when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 24th 1915. Joining the 23rd Battalion, 3rd Reinforcements, he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Anchises on August 26th 1915 and served at Gallipoli for the final weeks of that campaign. In early 1916 he was transferred to the 22nd Battalion. For displaying ‘courage much beyond the ordinary’ at Pozieres in August 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal. He was admitted to hospital sick on March 11th 1918 for a period of 61 days, re-joining his unit on 10 May 1918. At Messines on October 4th 1918 he suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was evacuated to the 5th Australian Field Ambulance. Unfortunately, his wounds proved too severe, and he died on October 10th 1918. He is buried in St Sever Communal Cemetery, Rouen, France.

Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Albert S. White.