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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 160

A Scarce Military Division O.B.E. Casualty Group of Nine to Paymaster Commander L.V. Webb, Royal Navy, Who Was Killed When H.M. Ships Repulse and Prince of Wales Were Sunk By Japanese Torpedo Bombers, North of Singapore, 10.12.1941, Two Days After the Declaration of War
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd [sic] type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt, gilding worn
b) 1914-15 Star (Payr. Lt. L.V. Webb. R.N.), rank treble-struck in places
c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Payr. Lt. L.V. Webb. R.N.), rank officially corrected
d) Naval General Service 1915-62, G.VI.R., one clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Payr. Cdr. L.V. Webb. R.N.)
e) 1939-1945 Star
f) Atlantic Star
g) Pacific Star
h) War Medal, Great War Medals slightly later issues, remnants of lacquer, generally very fine or better (9)

O.B.E. London Gazette 17.7.1919 Paymaster Lieutenant Lancelot Vere Webb, R.N.
'For valuable services in H.M.S. Marlborough, 1st Battle Squadron.'

Paymaster Commander Lancelot Vere Webb, O.B.E., born 1892; joined the Royal Navy in January 1905; Midshipman, 15.1.1910; Sub-Lieutenant, 15.5.1913; found unfit for service with Executive Branch at sea due to defective vision; transferred to the Accountant Branch as Clerk, 25.4.1913; served in H.M.S. Warrior (armoured cruiser), May 1913-December 1915; Assistant Paymaster, 13.3.1914; served in H.M.S. Marlborough (battleship), 11.2.1917-22.3.1919; post-war service included at R.N. College Dartmouth; Webb was invested with his O.B.E. at Buckingham Palace, 24.3.1920; advanced Paymaster Commander, 13.12.1931; posted for service during the Second War in H.M.S. Repulse, December 1940; Webb was serving in her when she was attacked and sunk, along with H.M.S. Prince of Wales, by land based Japanese bombers and torpedo bombers, north of Singapore, 10.12.1941; Repulse, without any air support of her own, managed to avoid approximately 20 torpedo strikes before receiving four fatal hits which sank her in six minutes; 513 of her crew were lost to the attack; Paymaster Commander Webb is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

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