Henry Webb enlisted soon after war was declared and was with the Otago Infantry Regiment on Gallipoli. He was removed from to hospital the field with dysentery - quite a common thing in the awful sanitary conditions on the Peninsula. He never recovered his health. Wherever it was that he contracted it, Henry died of cardiac arrest caused by perforation of the lungs by tuberculosis.
DEATHS.
WEBB. —On November 22, at his residence, Ronaldsay street, Palmerston South, Henry John, beloved husband of Chrissie Webb, and beloved twin son of William and Jessie Webb, Bowmont street, Invercargill; aged 38. Funeral will leave his late residence, Thursday, 1.30 p.m., for Palmerston Cemetery. -Otago Daily Times, 23/11/1927.
PALMERSTON NOTES.
(From Our Own Correspondant.) PALMERSTON, November 24.
OBITUARY. The late Henry John Webb was born in Palmerston, and went to Invercargill with his parents when he was a boy. He was in the ironmongery trade prior to the war, to which he went with the main body, and rose to the rank of sergeant. He went through the Gallipoli campaign, and was invalided to England. He had been in ill-health ever since his return home. Mr Webb leaves a widow to mourn his loss. The Rev. D. G. Wilson conducted the service at the local cemetery this afternoon, and there was a firing squad of returned soldiers present to pay him a last tribute. The ‘‘Last Post” was sounded. -Otago Daily Times, 27/11/1927.
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