Charles Webster

Rank: 
Private
Regimental number: 
150682
Unit at enlistment: 
79th Battalion
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
No
Date of death: 
September 12th, 1916
Cemetery: 
Etaples Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - X.D.4.
Commemorated at: 
Elgin, Manitoba War Memorial
Birth country: 
Scotland
Birth county: 
Aberdeenshire
Birth city: 
Aberdeen
Address at enlistment: 
Elgin, Manitoba
Next of kin address: 
Elgin, Manitoba
Trade or calling: 
Farmer
Religious denominations: 
Baptist
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
17

Letters and documents

Cause and Place of Death: Died of Wounds. No. 22 General Hospital, Camiers

BX October 24, 1916

Private Charles Webster, for a numbers of years an employee at the Penman Mills in Paris, but who enlisted at Brandon, Manitoba with the 79th Battalion, is today reported dead from wounds received September 10. Word was received in the city by Mrs. Louis F. Perry, 14 Melrose Avenue, from the deceased hero’s mother, Mrs. J.W. Thorpe, of Elgin, Man. Shortly after getting overseas Private Webster was transferred to the 16th Scottish Canadians and has been in the trenches for six or seven months. Private Webster was a brother of Mrs. L.F. Perry, and a brother of George Webster, 84th Battalion, who formerly resided at 97 Lyons Avenue. Another brother in khaki is Gunner Alex Webster, 54th Battery, who formerly resided at 340 St. Paul’s Avenue and previous to enlistment was an operator at the Colonial Theatre.