Alleyne Gordon WEBBER

Regimental number9/431
OccupationCivil Engineer
AddressElles Road, Invercargill
Marital statusSingle
Next of kinBrother, Fred Webber, 8 St Albans Road, Mount Eden, Auckland
Rank on embarkationTrooper
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, Main Body, Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 16 October 1914
Three squadrons of the Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment left New Zealand on board 'Hawke's Bay', and one squadron on board 'Verdala'. From the Nominal Roll it is not possible to determine on which ship an individual embarked.
Final rankLance Corporal
Final unitOtago Mounted Rifles Regiment
Fate6-7 August 1915
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsChunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial (Panel No 7), Gallipoli, Turkey
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Alfred Septimus and Emily Esther Webber, 55 Balmoral Road, Mount Eden, Auckland. Assistant City Engineer of Invercargill. Killed in action at Bauchop's Hill, Gallipoli, 6 August 1915, aged 27, and buried where he fell. Beloved second son of Emily and Alfred Webber.
Family/military connectionsBrother: 1146 Pte Gerard Kingsley WEBBER, 10th Bn, Royal Fusiliers, died of wounds, 2 February 1917; buried Manchester Southern Cemetery, England
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Otago Mounted Rifles/Main Body

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