Four: Chief Armourer E. E. Webb, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (342160. E. E. Webb. Arm., H.M.S. Dartmouth.); British War and Victory Medals (342160 E. E. Webb. Ch. Armr. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (342160 E. E. Webb, Armr., H.M.S. Diana.), generally good very fine (4) £140-£180

Ernest Edward Webb was born in Truro, Cornwall, on 21 January 1877 and entered naval service on 21 June 1898 in H.M.S. Cambridge. Appointed Armourer on 1 August 1911, in H.M.S. Thistle, he served as such in H.M.S. Dartmouth from 2 September 1913 and as an acting Chief Armourer from 1 August 1914 to 30 June 1915, when he was drafted to H.M.S. Egmont.