WEBSTER, Tom
Service Number: | 328 |
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Enlisted: | 28 October 1914, Dalby, Queensland |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 5th Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | Mercaston, Derbyshire, England, 11 September 1891 |
Home Town: | Bell, Western Downs, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Grazier |
Died: | Died of wounds, Palestine, 8 November 1917, aged 26 years |
Cemetery: |
Beersheba War Cemetery Grave Q. 72. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bell War Memorial, Kumbia WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
28 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 328, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Dalby, Queensland | |
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21 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 328, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
21 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 328, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Sydney | |
16 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 328, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
17 Dec 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
4 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
13 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
13 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
31 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Beersheba, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-11-08 | |
7 Nov 1917: | Wounded Battle of Beersheba, GSW (abdomen) |
CWGC data
Tom WEBSTER. Lieutenant Australian Light Horse, A.I.F. who died of wounds in Palestine November the 8th 1917. Son of William and Sarah of Pebble Hall, Theddingworth, Rugby, England and late of Mercaston Hall and Sarum, Queensland, Australia. Native of Mercaston. Commemorated on a family memorial inside All Saints, Muggington and Kedleston church, Derbyshire and is buried at Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel
Submitted 19 August 2016 by Alfred Beard
Biography contributed by Aberfoyle Park High School
"WEBSTER.- Died from wounds in Palestine, 8th November. Lieut. Tom Webster, 5th Light Horse, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Webster, Sarum, Bell, aged 26 years, after 3 years' service." - from the Brisbane Courier 18 Dec 1917 (nla.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Son of William and Sarah Webster, of Pebble Hall, Theddingworth, Rugby, England.
Births Dec 1891 WEBSTER Tom Ashborne 7b 609
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is remembered on the Theddingworth War Memorial.
Theddingworth is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England.
The parish includes the neighbouring hamlet of Hothorpe, which lies across the county boundary in Northamptonshire.
Theddingworth lies about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Market Harborough on the road to Lutterworth. It is on the north bank of the River Welland, which forms the county border with Northamptonshire.