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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 414

Warwickshire Yeomanry

Three: Corporal W. F. Webb, Warwickshire Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (1716 Pte. W. F. Webb, Warwick. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (1716 Cpl. W. F. Webb, Warwick. Yeo.), edge bruise to the second, very fine (3)

William F. Webb entered the Egypt theatre of war on 9 April 1915 and likely landed with the 1/1st Warwickshire Yeomanry in Gallipoli in August; the unit suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill and in an attack on Hill 112 in the same month.

During service in Palestine as part of the 5th Mounted Brigade, at the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April 1917, the Warwick Yeomanry were extremely active from a support position, engaging snipers to the right flank and stopping flank attacks to the left. Nine men were killed and three officers and 13 men were wounded during the day. At the Third Battle of Gaza, the 5th Mounted Brigade held the vital position of Ras en Nagb against repeated and determined attacks, the Warwicks losing four men killed and 17 wounded.

Webb later transferred as a Corporal to the Labour Corps; his MIC refers.


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