Percy Rowett White was born in the Sydney city of Paddington

Paddington

Paddington is a district within the City of Westminster, in central London, England. Formerly a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965...

 in Australia. He was a rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 player in the New South Wales Rugby League

New South Wales Rugby League

The New South Wales Rugby League is the governing body of rugby league in New South Wales and is a member of the Australian Rugby League. It was formed in Sydney on 8 August 1907 and was known as the New South Wales Rugby Football League until 1984 when forward thinking marketing managers decided...

 competition.

White played 84 matches for the Eastern Suburbs

Sydney Roosters

The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

 club in the years 1908 to 1916. He played as a prop forward in East's 14-12 loss to South Sydney

South Sydney Rabbitohs

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

 in rugby league's first premiership decider

Eastern Suburbs 1908 Season

The 1908 Eastern Suburbs season was the first in the history of the club Eastern Suburbs. They competed in the newly formed New South Wales Rugby Football League's inaugural season, reaching the final which they lost to South Sydney.-Players:...

 in 1908. He is recognised as Eastern suburbs 23rd player. Team mate Eddie White

Eddie White

Eddie White was an Australian rugby league footballer in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.A winger, White played 35 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years . White was a member of Eastern Suburbs first premiership winning team in 1911 and was a member of the sides...

 was his brother while his father, John White, was one of the club's earliest presidents.

White was one of the many to fall on the Western Front

Western Front (World War I)

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne...

 during the First World War

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

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