Regiment: 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment, F Company

1/4th Battalion Territorial Force
04.08.1914 Stationed at Hull as part of the York & Durham Brigade of the Northumbrian Division and then moved to South Holderness and then on to Darlington and then Newcastle.
07.04.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne where the formation became the 150th Brigade of the 50th Division which engaged in various action on the Western Front including;
During 1915
The Battle of St Julien, The Battle of Frezenburg Ridge, The Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge.
During 1916
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Wancourt Ridge, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Actions at the Somme Crossings, The Battle of Rosieres, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of the Aisne.
15.07.1918 Reduced to cadre and moved to defend the Lines of Communication in Dieppe.
16.08.1918 Transferred to the 116th Brigade of the 39th Division.
07.11.1918 Demobilised at Cucq.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
26 , PEASE STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
02/05/1915
       
Aged
20
BORN HULL 1896. YOUNGEST SON OF WILLIAM WEBSTER & CHARLOTTE WEBSTER (1860-1924), AT 26 PEASE STREET, HULL AND 36 PEARSON STREET, PROSPECT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WAS A FORMER WHEELER STREET SCHOLAR AND A CLEANER FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. ALSO A MEMBER OF THE HULL & DISTR […]