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Edward WhiteIn November 1991, Radio Belgrade reported that they had killed a "mercenary" named Edward White at a village called Laslovo near the eastern Slavonian city of Osijek, Croatia.Edward was a member of Eduardo Floresﾒ soon-to-be notorious International Platoon (later Company); he was serving in the British Armyﾒs Royal Tank Regiment in Germany and had gone Absent Without Leave to join the war in Croatia in October 1991. Somewhat incongruously he was employed as a sniper, a task he nevertheless peformed to a very satisfactory degree. On a Sunday night, probably the 24th November, the chetniks and Yugoslav Federal Army (JNA) overran ethnically Hungarian Laslovo and the International Platoon, taken by surprise, was forced to drop everything and run. Edward was last seen running through a cornfield when he was shot in the back of the head and fell to the ground. Other sources say he was hit in the back and finished off by the chetniks. There was an ugly rumour, unsubstantiated, that badly wounded, White was left to die by the other members of his unit. One of his colleagues stated that he attempted to go back for Edward but that the weight of enemy fire was such that he could not reach him. Edward was well thought of by those who knew him, both in the British Army and in the brief period of his service in Croatia.
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