Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon Major-General W. M. Webb, Army Medical Department, attached 19th Foot

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (W. M. Webb. 19th. Regt.) contemporarily engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed as issued, fitted with post and small ring suspension, lacquered, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (2) £400-£500

William Marshall Webb was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire in 1833 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Army Medical Department, attached 19th Foot, in March 1854, seeing active service during the Crimea War. He was advanced Surgeon-Major in January 1864, and held the post of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Netley from 1873 to 1878. He was promoted Brigade Surgeon in November 1879; Deputy Surgeon-General in July 1881; and Surgeon-General, afterwards Surgeon Major-General, in December 1887. He retired in July 1893, and died in Cairo in 1899.

In 1901 his widow founded the Marshall Webb prize in his memory - awarded to the Lieutenant on probation in the R.A.M.C. who obtained the highest marks in the examination on Military Medical Administration at the Royal Army Medical College.