Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookfles, elder _s._ of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known Hampshire and Glamorgan professional cricketer, by his wife, Ethel E. (45A, Mersham Road, Thornton Heath); _b._ St. Helier's, Jersey, 31 March, 1894; educ. Southampton Grammar School; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was promoted Sergt. 1 Feb. 1915. He went with his regt. to the front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ Sergt. Webb, who was himself a keen cricketer, belonged to a well-known sporting family; one of his uncles played for Kent, and another was Fred Webb, the ex-jockey, who won the Derby in 1873. His father is now (1916) on service with the Royal Fusiliers. A comrade wrote: "I was present at Neuve Chapelle when your eldest son got killed. He was a brave fellow, and led his platoon until he got to the German's barbed wire. We were unable to get him into our trenches; but he died like a hero." His younger brother, Sergt. C. F. Webb, was killed 16 May, 1915 (see his notice). [Illustration: =Arthur Stuart Webb.=] =WEBB, CHARLES ELIJAH JAMES=, Probationary 2nd Cook's Mate, M. 7800, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WEBB, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Sergt., No. 11428, 1st Battn., King's Royal Rifles, yr. _s._ of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known professional cricketer, etc. (see above notice); _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight, 3 Feb. 1896; educ. Southampton Secondary School; enlisted in Sept. 1914, was promoted Sergt. March, 1915, a week after his brother's death, and died from wounds received in action at Givenchy, 16 May, 1915, succumbing while on his way to the Field Ambulance; _unm._ His Qr.-Mr. Sergt. G. Knaggs, wrote to his father, at the request of Section Officer Major Barton Frere: "His Battn. attacked the German trenches on the night, 15-16 May, and captured them. Your son was seen to fall wounded, and although his wounds may then have been slight ones, it is possible that he was more severely hit on proceeding to the rear. In any case it is only too evident that he did not reach the Field Ambulance." [Illustration: =Charles F. Webb.=] =WEBB, EDGAR DORRINGTON=, Sergt., No. 1164, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Walter Edward Webb, Capt. 14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt., late King's Own Scottish Borderers by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Powell; _b._ Devonport, 5 June, 1891; educ. Dumfries Academy, and Dulwich College, London; was a clerk in the Bank of England, May, 1910, to Aug. 1914; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in June, 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Brewery Post Trench, near Rue de l'Epinette, Pas de Calais, 5 May, 1915. Buried in British Cemetery, Rue du Bois, near Bethune. Sergt. Webb _m._ at St. Leonard's Church, Streatham, London, S.W., Annie Florence, dau. of Arthur Henry Cornish; _s.p._ =WEBB, EDWARD CHARLES HARRY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only _s._ of Edward Webb, of Cosham House, Cosham, co. Hants and Hindugalla, Peradeniya, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Mary Quarry, dau. of William Charles Whitham, of Warangalla, Ceylon; _b._ Hindugalla, 18 Dec. 1894; educ. Haileybury College; passed into Sandhurst in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Lincolns, 10 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, and buried in an orchard with other officers and men of the regt.; _unm._ [Illustration: =Edward C. H. Webb.=] =WEBB, JAMES=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270880, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =WEBB, JOHN BOYER=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Prince of Wales' North Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st. Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., only _s._ of Capt. Charles Boyer Webb, of Elford House, Tamworth, late 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (died 26 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Adela Dorothy, dau. of Colonel Arthur Blundells, 3rd East Kent Regt., and grandson of the late Colonel Charles John Webb, who for some time commanded the same regt. (4th N. Staffs); _b._ near Tamworth, 8 June, 1894; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was gazetted to the 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. 7 Aug. 1914, being quartered at Guernsey till 16 March, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Bedfords, and promoted Lieut. 1 April following. He was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 21 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Boyer Webb.=] =WEBB, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2556), 199206, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WEBBER, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3852), 197166, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =WEBBER, EDWARD CHARLES=, Clerk, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Good Hope, only _s._ of Edward Samuel Webber, of 18, Taswell Road, Southsea, M.B. Cantab, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Dr. John Brickwell; _b._ Sutton Valence, co. Kent, 13 May, 1894; educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, where he was Captain of the Games, 1910 and 1911, and Sergt. in the O.T.C.; entered the Navy, 15 July, 1911; appointed Clerk, 15 July, 1912; appointed to the staff of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, 25 Feb. 1913; and went down in H.M.S. Good Hope in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =WEBBER, HAROLD PERCIVAL=, L.-Corpl., No. 2398, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th _s._ of William Webber, retired Coy. Secretary, for 43 years in the service of John Board & Co., Ltd., of Dunball, Bridgwater, Cement, Lime, Brick and Tile Manufacturers; _b._ Puriton, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 7 May, 1889; educ. Collegiate School, Bridgwater; was apprenticed for three years to J. P. Curtis, of High Street, Weston-super-Mare, Ironmonger, with whom he stayed for a few months; after which he was with John Walsh, Ltd., of Sheffield, for about three years, and then entered the employ of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington, London, being one of the first batch of young men who enlisted from that establishment on the outbreak of war; after training in Malta, he went to France, arriving at Marseilles the first week in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near l'Epinette, Armentières, 13 March, 1915; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. Attenborough wrote: "He was shot through the head and died instantaneously. His death was a great loss to his Coy., in which he was very popular, and was a loss to the battalion as he was a very promising soldier. He is buried with others of his comrades in a cemetery prepared for soldiers near a large farmhouse just behind our trenches." [Illustration: =Harold P. Webber.=] =WEBBER, HAROLD VICTOR=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Somerset L.I., yst _s._ of the late Sergt.-Major William Webber, Somerset L.I. (who _d._ 6 July, 1915, the same day as his son was killed); by his wife, Elizabeth (Jellalabad, Holway Road, Taunton), dau. of Thomas Laver; _b._ Taunton, co. Somerset, |