BORN HULL, 02/11/1889. SECOND SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM WEBSTER (1854-1941) & EVELINE ROSE PEARSON (1862-1922), OF 113. WESTBOURNE AVNEUE, HULL. HIS MOTHER WAS THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF ZACHARIAH CHARLES PEARSON, THE HULL PHILANTHROPIST. HIS FATHER WORKED FOR ROSE DOWNS AND THOMPSONS, THE HULL SEED CRUSHING COMPANY. HE WAS ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN.
GEORGE WAS A CHORISTER AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH. HE MARRIED MARY LOUISE PRETTY, AND LIVED AT 446a ANLABY ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SERVED IN THE EAST RIDING YEOMANRY
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 16/11/1914. JOINED THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION, WITH HIS BROTHER, 2/LT ARTHUR CECIL WEBSTER, (WHO WAS WAS KILLED AT OPPY WOOD ON 03/05/1917).
GEORGE ALAN WEBSTER TRAINED AS AN OFFICER CADET, CAMBRIDGE, ON 18/01/1918. COMMISSIONED INTO THE 1/5TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, ON 25/06/1918. TRANSFERRED AS A SECOND LIEUTENANT, IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, AT EPEHY, ON THE 18/09/1918, AGED 29.
HE HAD BEEN MARRIED ONLY 5 WEEKS BEFORE HIS DEATH. HIS WIDOW RESIDED AT “AILSA CRAIG”, ANLABY PARK, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/09/1918.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HE IS ALSO REMEMBERED WITH HIS BROTHER, ON A PLAQUE, AT THE REAR WALL OF HULL MINSTER, WHERE THEY BOTH SERVED AS CHORISTERS.
HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER, KENNETH WEBSTER WAS AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL, AS AL/CPL IN THE KING’S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS, IN 1916, AND THEN TOOK A COMMISSION IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, BEING AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS IN OCTOBER 1918. HE WAS WOUNDED (LOST HIS RIGHT ARM AND SHOULDER) JUST 6 DAYS AFTER THE AWARD. HIS SISTER WHO WORKED ON THE CLERICAL STAFF FOR ROSE DOWNS AND THOMPSON WAS GIVEN £10 EXPENSES BY CHARLES DOWNS, TO VISIT HIM IN FRANCE. ANOTHER BROTHER, HAROLD PEARSON WEBSTER, SERVED AS A CAPTAIN IN THE INDIAN ARMY.
Thank You to Richard Webster for the above family information, sent on 28/07/2016.
