M/24200. Private Henry Stafford Webb
14th. (Service) (West of England) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Transferred to 573146. Private, 64th. Prisoner-of-War Company, Labour Corps. Born 1887 in Winford, Near Bristol, Somerset. A Baker’s Carter by Trade. Killed Accidentally on Thursday 12th. December 1918, aged 31. Buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France, Block S, Plot III, Row CC, Grave18. Son of Henry and Jane Webb, of Winford, Bristol. Husband of Minnie Louisa Webb, of “Holly Cottage”, Downside, West Town, Bristol.
Henry was entitled to The Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Minnie paid 3s. 2d. for the following personal inscription to be carved on Henry’s Headstone:
“REST IN PEACE”
Older brother of:
81936. Private, Frank Hugh Webb
10th. Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) (10th. Canadians) Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, who also Fell during The Great War. “Died of Wounds received in Action” on Saturday 10th. November 1917, aged 27.
Barry Jenkins