Day 1000. Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE SYDNEY WILLIAM WEBB 22472. Born in September 1892, Sydney was the fourth of six children and eldest son of Thomas and Lydia Webb of 8 Rosemount Avenue, Hull. A Tram Driver by trade, he enlisted while he still had the choice on 11th December 1915. Another month would see the Conscription Bill become law and Sydney would have risked being called-up as the lowest of the low in army hierarchy- the conscript. He arrived in France in the middle of July 1916, dropped right into the heart of the Somme campaign. Wounded in the neck that October, and in the chest and shoulder the following April, Sydney returned back to Blighty to recover returning in July and transferring from the 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment to the 13th, and then the following February to the 11th. Listed as missing on 12th April 1918 as the Pals tried to stem the tide of the German Spring Offensive, he was identified as a Prisoner of War and again wounded. Sydney William Webb died of wounds on 1st June 1918 and is buried at Anzac Cemetery; he was 25 years old. Something of a milestone today. 1000 men remembered. Only taken me three-and-a-quarter years. Hopefully by now anyone following these posts will have some idea of the industrial scale of these numbers and the exponential number of lives ruined by their passing, from parents to siblings and from wives to children. We still feel these ripples now.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 19:45:38 +0000
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