Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

British War Medal 1914-20 (41183 1.A.M. J. W. Webber. R.A.F.) very fine

Four: Private G. A. Webber, Essex Regiment, who was wounded in action at the Defence of Tobruk in 1942 and taken Prisoner of War
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6009401 Pte. G. A. Webber. Essex. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; together with an unofficial Tobruk Siege Cross 1941, the reverse engraved ‘G. Webber’, good very fine and better (lot) £160-£200

George Alfred Webber was born in Poplar, London, on 26 July 1909, the son of Joseph Webber, and attested for the Essex Regiment at Warley on 14 April 1932. He served with the Regiment in the inter-War years in India, Egypt, the Sudan, and Palestine. Transferring to the Reserve on 25 March 1939, he was recalled to the Colours following the outbreak of the Second World War, and saw further service in North Africa. He was wounded at the Siege of Tobruk in 1942, and was taken Prisoner of War. Repatriated on a Swedish hospital ship in 1944, he was operated on at Woolwich Hospital, and had a fragment of shrapnel removed from his neck (included in lot). Discharged from the Army, he subsequently lived in Halesworth, Suffolk.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Essex Regiment Certificate of Service; riband bar and cap badge; two German documents from his time as a Prisoner of War; group photographic image featuring the recipient taken outside the Tobruk defences in 1942; an Essex Regiment ‘The Pompadours’ crochet cushion cover made by the recipient whilst in hospital; and a fragment of shrapnel removed from the neck of the recipient in Woolwich Hospital.