Benjamin Franklin White, Jr.
Private First Class, Marine Corps
Hometown: Essex County, VA
Served In: World War II
Casualty Date: July 23, 1944
Died In: Mariana Islands, Guam
Awards: Purple Heart
Served In: World War II
Casualty Date: July 23, 1944
Died In: Mariana Islands, Guam
Awards: Purple Heart
Private First Class White served with H Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. He was killed by a Japanese sniper.
He was buried in US Military Cemetery Guam but later repatriated back to the United States to Lutheran Reformation Cemetery, New Market, Virginia.
He was a 1941 graduate of Broadway High School.
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