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{{Personnel
|id=2181
|Surname and forenames=White Michael
|Army number=4455597
|Rank=Pte
|Date of birth=Born County Durham 1915/16.
|Age=24
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, but probably early May 1939.  Posted ? 6th Bn DLI.  Posted 10th Bn DLI - probably 1st September 1939.  Served Iceland. DIED in a road accident in Iceland, involving a Bren Carrier which he was driving, near [[Blonduos]], 20/10/1940,  while serving with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=20-Oct-40.
|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Son of Michael and Margaret Ann White, husband of Lilian White, Leasingthorne.  Buried Grave 1.  Blonduos Cemetery.
|Image Name=JLD_Second_face-on_view.JPG
|Image Title=Pte Michael White's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=10DLI
}}


Private White was another particular friend of the late Vane Dyson, who described the fatal accident he suffered in an interview with the researcher.