245175 Pte. Eustace Webb British Army 13th Btn. Essex Regiment from:Ickleton, Cambridgeshire (d.30th November 1917 ) Eustace Webb was my great uncle, uncle of my grandmother Vera Kidman nee Webb. His brother Percy Webb was my great grandfather. Born in the 1st quarter of 1878 and baptised on the 17 February 1878 at Burwell, Cambridgeshire, he was one of six children, four surviving at the 1911 census, born to Jesse and Rebecca Webb of Ickleton, Cambridgeshire. In 1906 he married May Dyer of Brookhampton Street, Ickleton, and they had 2 children, daughters Sheila Eileen Webb and Kathleen Webb. He was a bellringer and worked as a carter for a builder before enlisting. Eustace Webb, served with the 13th Battalion, Essex Regiment, he enlisted at Saffron Walden. He died on the 30 November 1917 age 39 and is commemorated at Cambrai Memorial at Louverval in France. It appears that his three brothers, Percy, Charley and Jesse, all served during the Great War and survived.
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