Frederick Webb

Home page

Appears as:

Born:

Parents:

Unit:


No.:

Rank:

Died:

Grave/Memorial:  		Webb, Frederick

29 October 1896, Pirbright, Surrey

Edward and Margaret (née Bull)

5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment / 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment
(Royal Canadians)

1070 / 15068

Private

27 October 1916, age 19

Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France: I. E. 27 		      

Biography:
Frederick Webb was born on, 29 October 1896, in Pirbright, Surrey.  He was the son and fifth child of Edward John, a builder’s labourer, and Margaret
Matilda (née Bull).  He had three brothers and five sisters.

After leaving school, Frederick worked as a butcher’s boy.

When war broke out, he volunteered for service, signing up with The Royal Irish Regiment.  His basic training would have been at the Regimental depot,
in Dublin.  Pre-deployment training was conducted at Basingstoke.

Frederick sailed from Liverpool and landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 22 August 1915, with the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment.  In October 1915, the
5th Battalion moved to Salonika.  It was probably about this time that Frederick was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment
(Royal Canadians), which had been fighting in France since 1914.

During the battle at Bruay, north of Vimy Ridge, Frederick Webb was wounded in heavy mortar fire and died of his wounds on 27 October 1916.  He is
buried, in grave I. E. 27, within the Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension, France.



The extension, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was begun by French troops in October 1914 and
when they moved south in March 1916 to be replaced by Commonwealth forces, it was used for
burials by the 6th Casualty Clearing Station. In November 1917, Barlin began to be shelled and
the hospital was moved back to Ruitz, but the extension was used again in March and April 1918
during the German advance on this front.

The extension contains 1,095 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 2 being unidentified.
There are 63 French and 13 German burials including 2 unidentified.


     

Frederick Webb is also commemorated on the WWI memorial stone outside the Brookwood Memorial Hall.