Name
Bernard Hugh Webb
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/03/1919
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
761496 *1
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
28th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Not Known.
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church
Pre War
Bernard was born in 1873, in Hendon, Middlesex. The son of George Webb a Businessman and Annie Theresa Webb (nee Bennett). One of eight children.
In the 1881 Census records Bernard was aged 8, at school, living with his parents, brother Roland 7, sisters Mable 13 and Elsie 3, at Downage, Hendon, Middlesex. Bernard’s father died in September 1881. Then by 1891 he was 18; living in Arkwright Road, Hampstead, London, the family home, his mother was not in residence but a number domestic staffs are recorded. His occupation is given as an “Architect Articled Clerk”. In 1901 he was 28, single, living on his own means at 3 Grays Inn Place, Grays Inn, Holborn, London. His Occupation is an Architect and by 1911 he was still single, but living with his widowed mother, sisters Ethel and Gertrude, at 29 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London. His occupation is an Architect and Surveyor. In 1919, his residence was Newlands Cottage, Gosmore, Nr Hitchin, Herts.
Wartime Service
Bernard enlisted on the 28th January 1918, at the HQ of the 28th Battalion, County of London Regiment, (Artist Rifles), Dukes Road, Euston Road, London, WC.
He was initially issued with the service number 6849, later changed to 761496. Bernard landed in France on the 5th March 1916, serving there until January 1918, when he was posted back to the UK. Returning on the 10th January 1918, still with the rank of Private. He served at home for the next year. His service record reads “11th February 1919, Discharged being appointed to a temporary commission, under A.O. 42/1919, in the Middlesex Regiment”.
Additional Information
*1 It is not known if he took up the Commission. Bernard died on the 2nd March 1919, cause of death and place of burial are not known. At the time of his death he was living at Newlands Cottage, Gosmore, Herts. There is no CWGC Headstone or a CWGC record of his death.
Acknowledgments
Iain Duncan
Stuart Osborne
