The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal C G Webb

Lance Corporal Charles/Cyril Gwynne WEBB, G/9832, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 9th October 1916.

Born Margate, Kent, son of Captain (RAMC) Cholmondeley & Dorothy Scott S***** Webb, 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent.

1911 Census - 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent - Cholmondeley Webb, head, age 47, married, Physician & Surgeon, born St Georges, Hanover Square, Middlesex; Dorothy Webb, wife, age 43, married 17 years, 3 children, all still alive, born St Georges, Bloomsbury, Middlesex; Dorothy Kathleen Webb, daughter, age 16, single, school girl, born All Saints, Margate, Kent; Cyril Gwynne Webb, son, age 13, school boy, born All Saints, Margate, Kent; Cholmondeley Webb, son, age 6, born All Saints, Margate, Kent; Julia Ellen Laming, servant, age 29, single, general servant, born St Lawrence, Kent; Peter Albert Hughes, servant, 21, single, man servant, born Chislet, Kent.

Enlisted Margate, Kent, age 19 years & 5 months, height 5ft 10¼ inches, weight 150lbs, mole a little above & to the inner side of left nipple, another over left shoulder blade. Resided 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent.

Home, 31st August 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 9th October 1916.

31st August 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st August 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 3rd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 4th May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 23rd September 1916, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal.

13th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Nil; Children, Nil; Father, Cholmondeley Webb, 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent; Mother, Dorothy Scott S***** Webb, 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent; Brothers - Cholmondeley Sydenham Webb, age 14, 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent; Sisters - Dorothy Kathleen Webb, age 25, 11 Canterbury Road, Margate, Kent.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial., Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France. / Margate War Memorial.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War gives date of death as 9th October 1918; CWGC web site shows 9th October 1916; Service records show 9th October 1916.

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