No.P/15214, Lance Corporal, Arthur Thomas WEBB
Aged 24
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Arthur Webb was born in 1894 in Dullingham, (Newmarket Q2-1894 3B:505}, baptised St Mary's, Dullingham 5th May 1894, son of Jacob and
Rebecca WEBB (née SEALEY).
1901 census...Aged 6, he was at 43 Westley Waterless with his father Jacob WEBB [40] a bricklayer, born in Burrough Green; his mother Rebecca [30] born Dullingham; sister Annie R.[11] born Dullingham; brother William J. [10] born Dullingham; grandmother Kezia WEBB [69] born Westley Waterless and uncle Frank SEALEY [31], born Dullingham. 1911 census...Aged 16, a self employed cycle repairer, he was still at 43 Westley Waterless with his parents and brother William ( a chauffeur). He married Eva Margaret WATTS [2-6-1894] on 23rd October 1918 at St Albans Registrars Office. She later married Albert C. CLEAL, of East Street, Beaminster, Dorset. |
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He enlisted in Cambridge in Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorials) No. 4555 on 9th December 1915 giving his age as 21 years 7 months, he was 5 feet 11 inches tall 180.3 cm), chest
38" to 41" (96.5 to 104.1 cm) and mobilised 12th September 1916.(No.256837). His documents give his occupation as policeman. Posted to France on 2nd September 1916, and joined the 1st Bn. Cambridgeshire Regiment on 14th September 1916. Gassed in the field on 28th September, near Beaumont Hamel, he was 1st admitted to 134th Field Ambulance and then 35 CCS (Doullens), before arriving at Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, France on 11th October, then via HMHS 'St Andrew' transferred to England. He had been in France for 44 days. Admitted to Frensham Hill Military Hospital,( near Farnham, now a private school) where notes say his condition greatly improved Transferred to Labour Corps 576th Coy 30th June 1917, No.326806, due to his medical condition, and then 575 Coy., at Halton Camp on 10th October 1917 Finally posted to Military Police Corps under conditions of AC? 1733 on 29th April 1918, promoted to Lance Corporal on that date. Taken ill and hospitalised on 1st November 1918, he died from pneumonia at 8 pm on 24th November at Bk Sect, Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank (near the Tate Gallery). Unfortunately many of the pages of his Army records are very faint or completely illegible. |
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