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Horace Webster
Private 45348
2nd/7th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Horace Webster died on Thursday 6th December 1917, Age 24, and is remembered on the CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, Nord, France.
He was born c1892/3 on Stoney Street, Sutton, to parents William and Emma Webster. William Webster was a Hosiery Factory Hand, who married Emma Sheppard at St Mary's church, Sutton, in December 1877. On the 1901 census William Webster and his family were living at Dalestorth Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
Horace Webster was also the husband of Mary Ellen Webster, of George Street, Sutton Road, Huthwaite.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
HORACE WEBSTER. Enlisted Derby, Derbyshire - Resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 2/7th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 45348, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 6th Dec 1917.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes