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Family of William WHITE and Agnes SCOTT

Husband: William WHITE (c. 1854-1935)
Wife: Agnes SCOTT (1873-1957)
Children: Robert (Bob) WHITE (1899-1956)
Elizabeth WHITE ( -1963)
James (Jim) WHITE (1902-1942)
Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE (1905-1995)
Walter WHITE (1908-1981)
The Baby WHITE (1911-1911)
Marriage (1) 20 May 1898 Bishops Mill, Portaferry, Down, Northern Ireland
Marriage (2) 20 May 1898 Bishopmills, Co., Down, Northern Ireland1

Husband: William WHITE

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William WHITE

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William WHITE, 1911, age 57

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William WHITE, 1901, age 47

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William WHITE

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William WHITE

Name: William WHITE2,3,4,5,6
Sex: Male
Father: James WHITE (1828- )
Mother: Mary WHITE (1843- )
Birth c. 1854 County Down, Ballywallen, Portaferry, Down, Northern Ireland5,6
Residence (1) btw 1891 and 1893 (age 36-39) Dowa, Malawi1
Occupation (1) 1899 (age 44-45) Engineer (Info from son Roberts Birth Cert and ship manifesto when immigrated to NZ). Also a farmer and a seaman.1
Possessions 1899 (age 44-45) Google maps say this is 14 Abbacy Road but Steves photo at the house shows it is number 12. Note; Neighbour (10a) in 2016 when Steve White visited was Paul Toner who runs the Strangford Bay Lodge; 12 Abbacy Road, Bishopmills, Ballywallen, Ardkeen Parish, Down, Northern Ireland1
Census 13 Apr 1901 (age 46-47) Ballywallon, Ards Upper, Down, Ireland1
Residence (2) 2 Apr 1911 (age 56-57) Ballywallon, Portaferry, Down, Ireland1,6
Family Photo c. Jun 1912 (age 57-58)1
Auction of House in Ireland 5 Jul 1912 (age 57-58)1
Immigration 15 Jul 1912 (age 57-58) to New Zealand1
Residence (3) 1919 (age 64-65) 61 Second Ave, Kingsland, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Occupation (2) 1923 (age 68-69) Mariner (according to detail on Robert Whites Marriage Cert)1
Residence (4) 1925 (age 70-71) 61 Second Ave, Grey Lynn, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Home 1934 (age 79-80) 61 Second Ave, Kingsland, Auckland NZ1
Death (1) 15 Apr 1935 (age 80-81)
Death (2) 16 Apr 1935 (age 80-81)1,5
Burial Glen Eden, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand1,4
Revisiting the homestead Sep 2000 (age 145-146)1

Additional Information

Birth William birthplace recorded as County Down , Ireland on his son William's Attestation for general service in the NZ Expeditionary Force in 1918
Residence (1) Son James and daughter Margaret were born in Dowa, Malawi so William and Catherine must have lived here for some years. Catherine died in Cloughey Down in Northern Ireland so they must have shifted back to the UK by 1896
Census Living in the home at this time was William and Agnes aged 27, as well Williams children from his first marriage, William aged 12, Hugh aged 10 and Maggie (Margaret) aged 8. William and Agnes’s first child together Robert
Family Photo James, Robert, May and Walter.
Not long before the family immigrated to New Zealand
Immigration Aboard the 'Ruahine'
Residence (3) Occupation = Mariner
Daughter Maggie living with them despite being married and using maiden name.
Residence (4) Occupation now a labourer
Death (2) This is recorded in the White Family Bible but date is 15th April Buried: Waikumete Cemetery, Presbyterian Division D, Row 16, Plot 22.
Revisiting the homestead Photo of Graeme White with Frank White in 2001 and photos taken by Steve White in 2016 of recently renovated home plus the land at the back of the property.

Wife: Agnes SCOTT

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Agnes SCOTT

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Agnes SCOTT, 1911, age 38

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Agnes SCOTT, 1901, age 28

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Agnes SCOTT

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Agnes SCOTT

Name: Agnes SCOTT2,3,4,5,7,8,9
Sex: Female
Father: Robert A SCOTT (c. 1825-1905)
Mother: Ellen Jane ALLEN (1840-1906)
Birth 26 Mar 1873 Portaferry, Bangor Parish , Down, Ireland4,5,7,9
Baptism Portaferry, Down, Ireland1,7
Residence (1) 13 Apr 1901 (age 28) Ballywallon, Ards Upper, Down, Ireland1,9
Residence (2) 2 Apr 1911 (age 38) Ballywallon, Portaferry, Down, Ireland1,8
Immigration 15 Jul 1912 (age 39)1
Residence (3) 1922 (age 48-49) 61 Second Ave, Kingsland, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Residence (4) 1925 (age 51-52) 61 Second Ave, Kingsland, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Residence (5) 1928 (age 54-55) New Zealand1,3
Residence (6) 1935 (age 61-62) 61, second, ave, Kingsland, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Residence (7) 1946 (age 72-73) New Zealand1,3
Residence (8) 1954 (age 80-81) 61 Second Ave, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Residence (9) 1957 (age 83-84) 61 Second Ave, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand1,3
Residence (10)
Death 7 Nov 1957 (age 84) Auckland, New Zealand4,5
Burial 9 Nov 1957 Glen Eden, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand1,4

Additional Information

Birth Detail from Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 Film Number 255875
Residence (1) 1901 Census shows that William and Agnes were living in a three bedroom home (that had 3 widows in the front), that there were 6 people in the house and the landowner whose holding the House is situated was a Francis McDonnell.
Immigration Immigrated to New Zealand
Residence (6) No William and no Maggie.
William died 16 April that year
Residence (7) No Maggie
Residence (10) Last Known Address 61 Second Ave Kingsland
Info from, Waikumete Cemetery Genealogical Information
Burial Presbyterian Division D Row 16, Plot 22

Child 1: Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE, 1945, age 46

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE, 1956, age 57

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE, 1911, age 12

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Robert (Bob) WHITE, 1901, age 2

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Robert (Bob) WHITE

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON, 1945, age 45

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON, 1945, age 45

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON

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Spouse: Grace Murrell SEON

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Spouse: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR

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Spouse: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR

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Spouse: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR

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Spouse: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR

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Spouse: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR

Name: Robert (Bob) WHITE2,4,8,10,11,12
Sex: Male
Nickname: Bob
Spouse 1: Grace Murrell SEON (1899-1945)
Spouse 2: Daisy Kathleen TAYLOR (1903- )
Cause of Death: Peritonitis, Thrombosis superior mesenteric Artery, Laparotomy
Children: Robert (Lloyd) Lloyd WHITE (1924-1991)
Beatrice (Alleyne) Alleyne Marie WHITE (1925-2018)
Allen (Des) Desmond WHITE (1926-2015)
Birth 24 Mar 1899 Bishops Mill, Portaferry, Down, Northern Ireland
Residence (1) 31 Mar 1901 (age 2) Ballywallon, Ards Upper, Down, Ireland1,11
Residence (2) 2 Apr 1911 (age 12) Ballywallon, Portaferry, Down, Ireland1,8
Immigration 15 Jul 1912 (age 13)1
Religion Aug 1912 (age 13) This book was given to Robert White by his Pastor when leaving for NZ. The church is the 'Old' Presbyterian Church in Cloughey.; Cloughey, Down, Northern Ireland1
Portrait soon after migrating to NZ 1913 (age 13-14) 2nd Ave Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand1
Occupation 1923 (age 23-24) Grocers Assistant at time of marriage (1923) Confectioner at Sweetacres (later became Griffins then Cadbury); Victoria Street, Auckland, NZ1
Family Photo "1944 ish"1
Home 1955 (age 55-56) 9 McDonald Street, Morningside, Auckland, New Zealand1
Death 15 Oct 1956 (age 57) Public Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand4
Cremation 18 Oct 1956 Waikumete Cemetery
Burial 1956 Glen Eden, Auckland Council, Auckland, New Zealand1,4

Additional Information

Birth As noted in the White family bible
Residence (2) Ireland Census data: Relation to Head: Son; Marital Status: Single; Could read and write; Presbyterian
Immigration Immigrated to NZ aboard the 'Ruahine' with his parents and siblings
Portrait soon after migrating to NZ Living at 2nd Ave Kingsland
Family Photo Des, Alleyne, Lloyd, Robert and Grace taken during WW1
Home Robert was living at this address at the time of his death.
Death Cause: Peritonitis, Thrombosis superior mesenteric Artery, Laparotomy
As noted in the White family bible
Died of peritonitis and thrombosis of superior mesenteric artery
Burial Plot Wesley Division F, Row 1, Plot 8. Memorial ID 210141119

Child 2: Elizabeth WHITE

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Elizabeth WHITE

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Elizabeth WHITE

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Elizabeth WHITE

Name: Elizabeth WHITE
Sex: Female
Spouse: Wise ( - )
Death 18 Mar 1963

Child 3: James (Jim) WHITE

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James (Jim) WHITE, 1942, age 40

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James (Jim) WHITE

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James (Jim) WHITE, 1940, age 38

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James (Jim) WHITE

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James (Jim) WHITE, 1911, age 9

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James (Jim) WHITE

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James (Jim) WHITE

Name: James (Jim) WHITE
Sex: Male
Nickname: Jim
Cause of Death: Drowned
Note 1: In December 1941 and August 1942 two POW transport ships from North Africa were struck by allied subs, to the great lose of Allied POWs. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand boys were buried at Methoni and 10 km further north at Pylos in Navarino Bay.

Today we honour the memory of those Australian and New Zealand Servicemen who died on this day when a ship called “Nino Bixio”, transporting several thousand Prisoners of War from Benghazi in Libya to Brindisi, enroute to POW camps in Italy, was torpedoed.

Two days out of Benghazi, the convoy was attacked by the British submarine HMS Turbulent. The Nino Bixio was hit by two torpedoes: one exploded in the tightly packed forward hold, killing more than 200 men and wounding another 60. Others drowned overboard. Despite extensive damage the Nino Bixio did not sink and was towed by an escorting destroyer to Navarino in Southern Greece, where the dead were removed and buried. The surviving POWs were transferred ashore and those fit enough were shipped to Bari in Italy."

James WHITE sn 23005
Note 2: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-fate-of-the-nino-bixio/

THE MV NINO Bixio was almost brand new. Named after a general from the 1870 unification of Italy, it had been commissioned in Genoa nine months earlier. Still, there was hardly enough room for 2921 POWs.

The captives were destined for Brindisi, a port on the heel of Italy’s boot. But the Nino Bixio’s captain, Antonio Raggio, decided to zig-zag across the Mediterranean, turning a day’s journey into three. Royal Navy submarines were hunting ships bound for Italy, so Raggio would pretend to sail for Greece.

On August 16, flanked by two destroyers and two torpedo boats, the Sestriere and the Nino Bixio left Benghazi harbour. The ships were unmarked, flying neither a red cross nor a white flag, the signals for wounded servicemen or prisoners of war.

Troops criss-crossed the Mediterranean to join major campaigns in North Africa, Crete and Italy. Right, a Royal Navy warship carries New Zealand servicemen to Greece.
ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
Crushed into the forward hold were about 500 of the prisoners, including the New Zealand contingent, “packed tight as a swarm of bees”, said Henderson.

It was late afternoon at the height of the Mediterranean summer when the convoy set sail. The foward hold was standing room only and the air was heavy and stifling and foul.

“All I did all night was sit down on my haunches and stand up. Sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up,” said Ron Yates, a serviceman from Tauranga, in a 1960s radio documentary, Prisoners of War.

The following day, whispers began filtering through the ship that there was an Allied submarine in the area.

Out in the deep, the HMS Turbulent was prowling. Its captain, John ‘Tubby’ Linton, was a Welshman who played rugby for the Royal Navy. He would later be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for sinking 81,000 tons of enemy shipping.

By mid-afternoon, the Peloponnesian coast of Greece was visible from the deck of the Nino Bixio. About 3.30pm, Linton gave the order to fire.

“I had a premonition it would happen,” said Yates. “I was sitting there and, all of a sudden, everything just seemed to go cold around me. I felt black wings beating around. I knew it was death, but above me there was a white light shining. I felt that though there was death all around me, it wasn’t going to hurt me.”

The first torpedo struck the Nino Bixio’s engine room. The second clipped the rudder, disabling the ship’s steering. The third smashed into the forward hold.

The HMS Turbulent, which torpedoed the MV Nino Bixio in August 1942, was sunk off the coast of Italy in March 1943.
ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
The explosion killed dozens of men in an instant, vaporising them. Then seawater surged into the hold through a ragged hole two storeys high, throwing men around like garments in a washing machine. Hatch covers and steel beams collapsed into the turmoil.

Of the chaos, Henderson remembers “swirling bits and pieces of bodies. Screams. Terrible cries for impossible help.”

Some were spared. Charles Watkins, originally from Wellington, was playing cards on the forward hold’s upper deck and climbed to safety, he later recalled. Yates was thrown above the ship by the explosion.

“I had a feeling I was up in the air but I couldn’t see,” he said. “I was in a grey cloud and all I kept thinking was, ‘Which arm? Which leg?’”

He landed on his side on the deck, suffering a knock to the back that would bother him for the rest of his life.

The sea was full of bobbing heads. Some captives had been sucked out through the hole in the hull, while others had leapt overboard, believing the ship was sinking.

Survivors still on the Nino Bixio began throwing ropes to them. One man pulled his body up hand over hand, then collapsed on deck, both of his legs missing. Another man was found in a coffin of steel plates that had curled around him as the sides of the ship split apart.

New Zealand soldiers serving at El Alamein in July 1942 fashioned veils as a protection against the flies that were a feature of the area, wrote Harold Paton, official photographer of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
The Nino Bixio glided on without power, slowing and lowering in the water. Behind her, Henderson saw “a pitiful spreading wake of debris and drowning men that finally reached almost as far as the eye can see”. The two destroyers cut through the human wake, releasing depth charges, but the Turbulent eluded them.

A few of the survivors in the water, clinging to makeshift rafts, would be rescued later. Most would die
Birth (1) 3 Jul 1902 Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Birth (2) 3 Jul 1902 Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland1
Residence 1942 (age 39-40) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation 1942 (age 39-40) Soldier
Death (1) 17 Aug 1942 (age 40) At Sea
Death (2) 17 Aug 1942 (age 40) At Sea1
Burial 1942 Alamein Memorial
A letter home from the War 1942 (age 39-40)1

Additional Information

Birth (1) As noted in the White family bible
Residence 61 Second Avenue, Kingsland, New Zealand
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-white-0
Occupation Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Killed whilst a Prisoner of War

https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/james-white-0
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C21792
Death (1) Cause: Drowned
also As noted in the White family bible
Casualty
Service Number:
23005
Name:James White
Rank:
Private
Date of Birth:
03 July 1902
Place of Birth:
Belfast, Ireland
Next of Kin:
William and Agnes White (parents), 61 Second Avenue, Kingsland, New Zealand
Date of Enlistment:
Not known
Enlistment Address:
61 Second Avenue, Kingsland, New Zealand
Occupation on Enlistment:Bushman
Armed Force:
Army
Unit:
New Zealand Infantry, 24 Battalion
Casualty Details
Cause of Death:
Lost in the S.S. Nino Bixio
Date of Death:
17 August 1942
Day of Death:
Monday
Age at Death:
35
Conflict:
WW2
Embarkation Details
Embarkation Body:
Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF)
Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery
Cemetery:
Alamein Memorial
Cemetery Reference:
Column 106.
Cemetery Location:
Egypt
Burial Cemetery Reference: Column 106.
Cemetery Location: Egypt
A letter home from the War This letter was written to his Aunty May, addressed to 61 Second Ave Kingsland.

Child 4: Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE

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Spouse: Alexander (Alex) HANNA

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Spouse: Alexander (Alex) HANNA

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Spouse: Alexander (Alex) HANNA

Name: Mary (May) Elizabeth WHITE3,4,13
Sex: Female
Nickname: May
Spouse: Alexander (Alex) HANNA ( -1982)
Birth 1 Mar 1905 Northern Ireland4
Just before immigrating to NZ 1912 (age 6-7)
Family Photos btw 1920 and 0025 (age -1880-14)
Residence (1) 1935 (age 29-30) 62 Second Ave, Grey Lynn, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand3
Residence (2) 1954 (age 48-49) 61, Second, Ave, in, Kingsland, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand3
Residence (3) 1957 (age 51-52) 61, Second, Avenue, Grey Lynn, Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand3
Smiling May c. 1985 (age 79-80) Auckland, New Zealand
Death 19 Jul 1995 (age 90) Everill Orr Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand4
Burial 4 Sep 19954

Additional Information

Family Photos L: Aged abt 19; Middle: May and her Aunty Lizzie (Agnes's sister); R: May, Agnes, Peg & William @ home (2nd Ave, Kingsland).
Smiling May Alleyne, May and Des
Burial Waikumete Cemetery Protestant Berm A, row 9 Plot 46 with Alec Hanna

Child 5: Walter WHITE

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Walter WHITE, 1911, age 3

Name: Walter WHITE2,13
Sex: Male
Spouse: Emily KEELING (1910-1982)
Birth 30 May 1908 Northern Ireland
Death 3 Jun 1981 (age 73)
Family

Additional Information

Family No children

Child 6: The Baby WHITE

Name: The Baby WHITE2,13
Sex: Female
Birth 20 Jul 1911
Death 20 Jul 1911 (age 0)

Note on Child 3: James (Jim) WHITE (1)

In December 1941 and August 1942 two POW transport ships from North Africa were struck by allied subs, to the great lose of Allied POWs. Hundreds of Australian and New Zealand boys were buried at Methoni and 10 km further north at Pylos in Navarino Bay.

 

Today we honour the memory of those Australian and New Zealand Servicemen who died on this day when a ship called “Nino Bixio”, transporting several thousand Prisoners of War from Benghazi in Libya to Brindisi, enroute to POW camps in Italy, was torpedoed.

 

Two days out of Benghazi, the convoy was attacked by the British submarine HMS Turbulent. The Nino Bixio was hit by two torpedoes: one exploded in the tightly packed forward hold, killing more than 200 men and wounding another 60. Others drowned overboard. Despite extensive damage the Nino Bixio did not sink and was towed by an escorting destroyer to Navarino in Southern Greece, where the dead were removed and buried. The surviving POWs were transferred ashore and those fit enough were shipped to Bari in Italy."

 

James WHITE sn 23005

Note on Child 3: James (Jim) WHITE (2)

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-fate-of-the-nino-bixio/

 

THE MV NINO Bixio was almost brand new. Named after a general from the 1870 unification of Italy, it had been commissioned in Genoa nine months earlier. Still, there was hardly enough room for 2921 POWs.

 

The captives were destined for Brindisi, a port on the heel of Italy’s boot. But the Nino Bixio’s captain, Antonio Raggio, decided to zig-zag across the Mediterranean, turning a day’s journey into three. Royal Navy submarines were hunting ships bound for Italy, so Raggio would pretend to sail for Greece.

 

On August 16, flanked by two destroyers and two torpedo boats, the Sestriere and the Nino Bixio left Benghazi harbour. The ships were unmarked, flying neither a red cross nor a white flag, the signals for wounded servicemen or prisoners of war.

 

Troops criss-crossed the Mediterranean to join major campaigns in North Africa, Crete and Italy. Right, a Royal Navy warship carries New Zealand servicemen to Greece.

ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

Crushed into the forward hold were about 500 of the prisoners, including the New Zealand contingent, “packed tight as a swarm of bees”, said Henderson.

 

It was late afternoon at the height of the Mediterranean summer when the convoy set sail. The foward hold was standing room only and the air was heavy and stifling and foul.

 

“All I did all night was sit down on my haunches and stand up. Sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up,” said Ron Yates, a serviceman from Tauranga, in a 1960s radio documentary, Prisoners of War.

 

The following day, whispers began filtering through the ship that there was an Allied submarine in the area.

 

Out in the deep, the HMS Turbulent was prowling. Its captain, John ‘Tubby’ Linton, was a Welshman who played rugby for the Royal Navy. He would later be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for sinking 81,000 tons of enemy shipping.

 

By mid-afternoon, the Peloponnesian coast of Greece was visible from the deck of the Nino Bixio. About 3.30pm, Linton gave the order to fire.

 

“I had a premonition it would happen,” said Yates. “I was sitting there and, all of a sudden, everything just seemed to go cold around me. I felt black wings beating around. I knew it was death, but above me there was a white light shining. I felt that though there was death all around me, it wasn’t going to hurt me.”

 

The first torpedo struck the Nino Bixio’s engine room. The second clipped the rudder, disabling the ship’s steering. The third smashed into the forward hold.

 

The HMS Turbulent, which torpedoed the MV Nino Bixio in August 1942, was sunk off the coast of Italy in March 1943.

ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

The explosion killed dozens of men in an instant, vaporising them. Then seawater surged into the hold through a ragged hole two storeys high, throwing men around like garments in a washing machine. Hatch covers and steel beams collapsed into the turmoil.

 

Of the chaos, Henderson remembers “swirling bits and pieces of bodies. Screams. Terrible cries for impossible help.”

 

Some were spared. Charles Watkins, originally from Wellington, was playing cards on the forward hold’s upper deck and climbed to safety, he later recalled. Yates was thrown above the ship by the explosion.

 

“I had a feeling I was up in the air but I couldn’t see,” he said. “I was in a grey cloud and all I kept thinking was, ‘Which arm? Which leg?’”

 

He landed on his side on the deck, suffering a knock to the back that would bother him for the rest of his life.

 

The sea was full of bobbing heads. Some captives had been sucked out through the hole in the hull, while others had leapt overboard, believing the ship was sinking.

 

Survivors still on the Nino Bixio began throwing ropes to them. One man pulled his body up hand over hand, then collapsed on deck, both of his legs missing. Another man was found in a coffin of steel plates that had curled around him as the sides of the ship split apart.

 

New Zealand soldiers serving at El Alamein in July 1942 fashioned veils as a protection against the flies that were a feature of the area, wrote Harold Paton, official photographer of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

The Nino Bixio glided on without power, slowing and lowering in the water. Behind her, Henderson saw “a pitiful spreading wake of debris and drowning men that finally reached almost as far as the eye can see”. The two destroyers cut through the human wake, releasing depth charges, but the Turbulent eluded them.

 

A few of the survivors in the water, clinging to makeshift rafts, would be rescued later. Most would die

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