BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THOMAS WEBSTER (1852-1926) & MARY ANN PEGDEN (1854-1930), OF 19 , LISTER STREET, HULL..
HE MARRIED ANN ELIZABETH (BORN 21/9/1883), AT HULL, IN 1905. THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS.
EMPLOYED AS A MARINE ENGINEER. HE LIVED AT 134 CLUMBER STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS A SERGEANT IN THE 1ST EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. POSTED TO THE MIDDLE EAST ON 11/10/1915.
DIED AT SEA, ON HMS “ARCADIAN”, SUNK 15/04/1917. HE WAS AGED 36. BURIED AT MIKRA, GREECE.
HI ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO ANN ELIZABETH AT 6, LANARK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
On 15th April 1917, HMT Arcadian was sunk off Melos in the Aegean Sea. Nineteen men of the draft of 43 ERY men destined to join the 1/1st ERY in Palestine were among those drowned. The regiment’s war diary notes 2nd Lt. (Richard Duncan) Ullyott and 13 men arriving on May 9th, with 19 reported drowned. In addition, Robert Bell was a former ERY man, then attached to the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and Harry Matthews may also have been with the ERY, though the evidence is ambiguous. So the total losses for the regiment on this occasion may have been 21. Though there were a couple of experienced NCOs in this group, the majority were young recruits.
