Alleyne Gordon WEBBER. Lance Corporal 9/431, Otago Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Born 1887 at Auckland, New Zealand second son of Alfred Septimus and Emily Ester Webber, nee Day of 55, Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.
Joined up 15 August 1914 at Invercargill, South Island, New Zealand, aged 27yrs and 9mths. Occupation civil engineer. Resided at Ellis Road, Invercargill. His brother, Fred was his next of kin.
Killed in action 6 August 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey
Commemorated on the New Zealand Memorial, Chunuk Bair, Turkey, including Gallipoli.
Commemorated on his brother’s headstone in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire.
His brother -
GERARD KINGSLEY WEBBER. Private 25425 Machine Gun Corps, formerly Private 1146, 10th Royal Fusiliers.
Born 1890, third son of Alfred Septimus and Emily Ester Webber, nee Day of 55, Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.
4 April 1913 aged 24 he disembarked at London from Sydney Australia, occupation, student.
Died in Ancoats Hospital Manchester, 2 February 1917 aged 27 of wounds received in action before Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France 14 February 1916. His sister, Ellen, spinster, was granted a war gratuity 13 March 1918.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
Gerard Kingsley Webber of Auckland, New Zealand, private, Machine Gun Corps. Died 2 February 1917 at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. Probate London, 23 January 1918 to Ellen Webber, spinster. Effects £59 18s 6d
At rest in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire.
Also, in memory of a splendid friend and comrade. (Same headstone) -
ALAN HAMILTON ROSS. Private STK/1095, 10th Royal Fusiliers.
Son of Nora Stapleton Laurence (formerly Ross), of 15, Henrietta Street, Bath, Somerset and the late William Ross. In 1911 with his mother then called Laurence at The Old Church House, Beckington, Bath, Somerset.
Killed in action in France 15 July 1916 aged 30. His mother was granted a war gratuity 17 February 1917 revised 24 November 1919.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry -
He resided at Bitterley near Ludlow Shropshire. Died on date and place stated. His effects went Nora Stapleton Laurence, wife of Charles Luard Laurence. £9524 10s 5d
Commemorated on the Webber headstone in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire also on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
