Current Information:

Age-25

Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg L'Avoue, France

21st London  (1st Surrey Rifles) arrived in France in March 1915 as part of 142 Brigade, 47th Division. After a period of trench training they took over a section of the line at Rue L’Epinette near Le Touret in northern France. On 5th May, 1915 they moved into the front line here in a sub-sector known as ‘Indian Village’. The Battalion Diary has no mention of any casualties on this day but the records show that it was the day that Sergeant Edgar Webb was killed in action, most likely from enemy shell fire.

The following information has been supplied by Kenneth Morrison;

Born 1892 in Stoke Damerel (Devonport) Devon*. Son of Captain Walter Edward Webb, (King's Own Scottish Borderers and the London Scottish), and Annie Elizabeth (Powell) Webb. In 1901 the family were at Daphne House in Dumfries. Husband of Annie Florence (or Tina) Webb (nee Cornish) of Gleneldon Road, Streatham who he married in 1914 in Streatham, Wandsworth, London. *SDGW gives his place of birth as Streatham.