BORN HULL 1883. HULL PAL. SON OF WILLIAM EDGAR WEBB & CHARLOTTE ANN (ARRAN).
ull Pals Memorial Posts. PRIVATE WILSON WEBB 10/774. Born 1884, Wilson was the younger of two sons to William and Charlotte Webb of 4 Barnsley Street, Hull. A Painter by trade, Wilson joined the queues for the fledgling battalion in those heady days of September 1914 when war seemed like a big adventure for the lucky few old enough and fit enough to embark upon it. He served first in Egypt then the trenches of France and was a veteran of the Somme and Oppy Wood as well as countless scuffles and skirmishes out in No Mans Land, and will have been looked up to by the later arrivals looking for a steady hand. His luck ran out on 12th April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive and his body was never recovered. His name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, he was 34 years old. The tragedy of the Webb family doesnt end there. His mother Charlotte had passed away in 1916, and it cant have been coincidence when his father died in 1919, too much loss for one man to take. His elder brother George died in German bombing of Hull in 1941.
Webb, Wilson
First name:
WILSON
Military Number:
774
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/04/1918
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
35
4 , BARNSLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
