John Thomas Webb
Memorial: Mangotsfield - St James Place
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 12949
Parents: Thomas and Laura Jane Webb (nee Benjamin)
Marital status: Single
Home address: Home Address: Black Horse Lane, Mangotsfield Lived: 1901 and 1911 Census – the family lived in Westerleigh
Pre-war occupation: Underground Colliery Labourer
Date of birth: 1894
Place of birth: Westerleigh, Bristol
Date of death: 06/12/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Dedeagatch British Cemetery, Greece
Age: 24
Further information:
John Thomas was born in 1894, 3rd quarter and Baptised at St James Church, Westerleigh on 8/03/1896. On the 1911 Census, John Thomas was living with his parents and three younger sisters in Westerleigh. His father was also a coal miner.
The No. 31 Casualty clearing station (CCS), Dedeagatch, Greece record book notes that John Thomas was serving with the 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (he previously served in 2nd Battalion, Glosters) and was attached to No. 78 Company Machine Gun Corps. He was recorded as dead on admission to the CCS during the Influenza pandemic. The separate pension card states that when taken ill, he was serving in Bulgaria. He probably fell ill there and was transported to the CCS in Greece.
John Thomas is remembered as T Webb on the Westerleigh Memorial and the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Westerleigh.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Battalion War Diaries, Medical Report, National Archives, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, UK Censuses, Hospital Records, Medal Rolls Index, David Blackmore.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis.