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Military service
Service number:
675541
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
18th Bn.
Birth:
December 8, 1894
Death:
July 9, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 5.
Additional information
Son of Isaac and Eliza Webb, of Elly Green, Corsham, Wilts., England.
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War Diary
Most probably died of wounds or was killed in action per July 9, 1917, 18th Battalion War Diary entry: Training during the morning. Postponed Church Parade held. About midday (12.40 pm) shell dropped by long range gun struck one of the huts in which H.Q. details and portion of D coy where billeted. 5 ors Killled. 4 ors died of wounds. 35 wounded. Contributed by E.Edwards www.18thbattalioncef.wordpress.com
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Private William Webb
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Commemorated on:
Page 346 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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