WEBB Samuel Cecil

  • First Name(s):
    Samuel 
    Cecil 
  • Surname:
    WEBB
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Munster Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    6th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    3rd October 1916
  • Age At Death:
    30
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Struma Military Cemetery, Greece, Grave III. C. 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Charles and Louisa Webb, of Park Place, Tashinny, Co. Longford

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

WEBB Samuel Cecil Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: Second-Lieut.

Further Information About WEBB Samuel Cecil

Samuel Webb was born in 1886. He attended Bromsgrove School from 1902 to 1903. He was a member of the Army Class but being rejected by the Army on account of his eyesight he went to Trinity College, Dublin where he had a distinguished career. He rode in the Senior Eight and was Secretary to the Boat Club. He took the degree of B.A. in 1907, obtaining a Gold Medal in Legal and Political Science, obtained a first class in the LL.B. examination in the same year and took the first place and a Silver Medal in his Solicitors’ examination in 1908. Samuel enlisted when the war broke out and served in Gallipoli where he was wounded at Suvla Bay. The following month he proceeded to the Salonika campaign where he was killed in action at the taking of the village of Jenikoi, Macedonia, on 3rd October 1916. He was killed by a Bulgar sniper and it was reported that he had had a premonition the night before that he would not survive to see the following night.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour:
WEBB, SAMUEL CECIL
Lieutenant, 6th (Service) Battalion The Royal Munster Fusiliers, youngest son of the late Charles Webb, of Park Place, Tashinny, County Longford, by his wife, Louisa, daughter of Ambrose Bole; born Boyle, County Roscommon, 1st October 1886; educated Bath College; Bromsgrove School, and trinity College, Dublin; was a Solicitor in Kilkenny; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant The Royal Munster Fusiliers 14 December 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli; was wounded at Suvla Bay in August 1915; proceeded to Salonika the following month, and was killed in action at the taking of the village of Jenikoi, Macedonia, 3rd October 1916. Buried at Mekes. While at Trinity College he rowed in the Senior VIII., 1905-07; graduated B.A. in 1907 (Gold Medal in Legal and Political Science); LL.B. (1st Class, Part I.) in 1907, and passed the Solicitors’ Final Examination (1st Place and Silver Medal) in May, 1908. Unmarried.

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