Philip Edward Webb was born on 14 July 1886 in Kensington, the youngest of the five children of Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) and Lady Webb née Marian Everett (1851-1930). He was baptised on 29 August 1886 at St John the Evangelist Church, Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, and the baptismal register shows the family living at 13 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, with his father's occupation given as an architect.
When the census that was taken on 5 April 1891 he was shown as aged 4 years and living at 1 Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, (now called Lansdowne Walk), Notting Hill, with his parents, his two surviving siblings: Maurice Everett Webb, D.S.O., M.C. (1880-1939) and Marian Dorothy Webb (1882-1962), together with a cook, a parlour-maid, a housemaid and a nurse.
The census that was compiled on 31 March 1901 lists him as aged 14 years and as a boarding scholar at Charterhouse School, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey. He left the school in 1905 and was a from 28 January 1908 to January 1913.
A member of the University of London's Officer Training Corps he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was serving in their 59th Field Company when he was killed in action, aged 30 years, on 25 September 1916 near Morval, Somme, France. As he has no known grave he is commemorated on of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Rue de l'Ancre, Authuille, France.
Probate was granted to his father on 3 November 1916 and his effects totalled £1,188. His army effects of £57-7s-4d were sent to his father on 15 February 1917 followed by a further payment of £3-10s-10d on 25 July 1917. He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal and these were sent on 22 February 1922 to his mother at 1 Hanover Terrace, Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill.
He is shown as "Webb,•Philip•E" on the war memorial at the Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, W1 and as "Lieut. P. E. Webb Royal Engineers" on the WW1 Calvary memorial at St Bartholomew's Church Gatehouse.
A reads: "In dear remembrance of Philip Edward Webb, architect & Secd. Lieut. Royal Engineers, the youngest son of Sir Aston and Lady Webb. He was killed in action near Morval Sept. 25, 1916 and was buried where he fell, aged 30 years. He was born in this parish & christened here. His life for his country; his soul to God."
He is also commemorated on both and on the in St John the Evangelist Church, Notting Hill, on the of the Charterhouse School war memorial, on the , on the , on the , on the and on the .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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