Attacked by carrier-borne aircraft from a Japanese force of three battleships and five carriers which had entered the Bay of Bengal a week before. Around seventy bombers were sent to dispatch the Hermes which sank within ten minutes
Son of Ernest and Jean White; husband of Rachel K. M. White, of Malvern, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Kwazulu-Natal, DURBAN, Stellawood, Cemetery and Crematorium