Sergeant Bernard Vincent Webb
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Date of Birth
Aug 1897
Date of Death
22 May 1918
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Luton ward
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Bernard Vincent Webb was the son of George Webb, a dentist of Westbourne Road, Luton, and his wife Elizabeth.
Bernard was just 17 when he enlisted with the Bedfordshire Regiment in September 1914. He told the recruiting officer he was 19!
Whilst serving with the 3rd Battalion Munster Fusiliers he was wounded at Gallipoli, on the Ottoman Peninsula, just over a year later with a gun shot wound to the hand.
After recovering from his wounds he subsequently transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and was killed in action in May 1918 aged 20 having risen to the rank of substantive sergeant.
- Sgt Bernard Vincent Webb 22/05/1918 aged 20
- Bernard enlisted in the Bedfordshire Rgt on 06/09/1914 aged 17, he was transferred to 12th Royal Lancers and was transferred again on 02/06/1915 to the 3rd Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers.
- He landed in Gallipoli with his regiment on 01/08/1915 and was wounded in action on 21/08/1915.
- After hospitalisation in Mudras he was evacuated to England on 21/10/1915.
- He transferred to 92 Coy Machine Gun Corps on 07/03/1916 and was posted to France.
- Bernard subsequently joined 31st Bn Machine Gun Corps on 03/03/1918.
- The Bn was heavily committed during the German Spring Offensive which started on 21/03/1918.
- On 22/05/1918 he was with a party of 7 soldiers sent to Divisional HQ to reconnoitre, 4 were killed by a shell and 2 were wounded.
- Bernard was amongst those killed and is buried in Caestre Military Cemetary in France, close to where he was killed.
- The War Diary for 31st Battalion notes that on 22/05/1918, 3 runners and 4 Sgts were sent to Div HQ to reconnoitre, 1 runner and 3 Sgts were killed by a shell, and 1 runner and 1 Sgt wounded.
Bernard is buried at Caestre Military Cemetery, Nord, France Grave reference: I. B. 23.
Information thanks to his descendant J. Atterton.
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Author: David
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