Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Belgium),
Darwin Cenotaph,
Biographical notes
Corporal Webb will be remembered as the member who responded for the Second Official Contingent at their send off in the Palmerston Town Hall. He will also be remembered as the 'tallest man who has left the Territory for the Front'. At about 6 feet 4 inches Webb's nickname was 'Long Webb'.,
History
Webb enlisted at Fraser's Hill in Queensland and as part of the15th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A33 'Ayrshire' on 1 September 1915. He then transferred to the 47th Battalion on 3 March 1916. He was wounded in action on 5 August 1916 at Gallipoli. On recovery he went to France and then Belgium and was killed in action on 6 October 1917.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8377221&I=1&SE=1,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067398/RCDIG1067398--395-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/64/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1551521/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1666748/,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3281626,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26124585,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7395758,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38329605,
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=8246,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278883,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278117,
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1601827/WEBB,%20FREDERICK%20GEORGE,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3281626 ["Letter from Fred Webb", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 21 September 1916: p.7.],
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=8246 [NT Place Names Register : Webb Road],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26124585 [History of the 15th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force : war 1914-1918 by Thomas Percival Chataway and Paul Goldenstedt. Swanbourne, W.A. : John Burridge Military Antiques, 198-.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1551521/ [Nominal Roll],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067398/RCDIG1067398--395-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - HMAT A33 'Ayrshire'],
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8377221&I=1&SE=1 [Service record],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/64/ [Unit War Diary],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38329605 [Battle scarred : the 47th Battalion in the first World War by Craig Deayton. Newport, N.S.W. : Big Sky Publishing, 2011.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1666748/ [Roll of Honour],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7395758 [The Chronicle of the 15th Battalion, A.I.F. by J.E. Lee. Sydney : Mortons, 1927.],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3278117 ["Our Boys at the Front", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 16 March 1916: p.15.],
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1601827/WEBB,%20FREDERICK%20GEORGE [Commonwealth War Graves - Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial - Frederick George Web],