Photo of Alice Webb(nee Collett). She was born in Epsom, Surrey in - TopicsExpress



          

Photo of Alice Webb(nee Collett). She was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1859. She was my great-grandfather Harry Collets sister. She moved to Melbourne with her husband Harry Webb in 1884. Harry died in Australia in 1901 and Alice had to bring up her seven surviving children alone. She received the sad news of the death of her son Thomas Richard Webb on 19th July 1916. Thomas was a private with the 60th Battalion of the Australian Infantry Forces and died during the Battle of Fromelles in France at the age of 26. His body was buried in a mass grave for 250 soldiers at Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery in Fromelles, but was only formally identified in 2010 through the use of DNA. So after ninety-five years he has been given a proper military burial, the grave site being marked by a headstone bearing his name. Group photo of Alice and her seven children.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:34:04 +0000

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