Service Details
Name:
 WEBBER
Given Name:
 EDWARD LYNDEN
Initials:
 E L
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Lincolnshire Regiment
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Unit:
 6th Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1915-08-07
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Date of Birth:
 1883-12-01
Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. Betraying their inexperience, the battalion failed to mop up Turkish trenches before moving forward and Webber was killed as he crossed over one position on Chocolate Hill
Additional
Information:
Son of Benjamin M. and Millicent A. Webber, of Bedford, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. At St Andrew's from July 1894-1898. He was in Rhodesia when war broke out he got a commission with the Lincolnshire regiment and was sent to the Dardanelles in 1915. He was killed on 7th August of that year. In a letter to this man's brother his adjutant writes that they were ordered to take Hill 53. Webber and a Captain Buck reached the top of the hill first where Webber was killed by a wounded Turk who fired at him from the bottom of the trench. The adjutant buried Webber on the top of the hill, Yilghen Burnu, and placed a cross and inscription over him.
Commemoration
Country:
 Turkey
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Cemetery:
 GREEN HILL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 II. B. 4.

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