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Gunner JOSEPH EDWARD WEBSTER

Service Number: 11256592
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 22 August 1945

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

VII. A. 34.

Italy

Famous Sportsmen Headstones, athletics: Gunner J E Webster in Salerno War Cemetery, Italy. Multiple national cross country and AAA steeplechase champion who competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Lizzie Matilda Webster, of Penn, Wolverhampton.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY DEAR HUSBAND EDDIE. HIS WIFE, SON AND DAUGHTER
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Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1855
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