Second Lieutenant Philip Edward Webb was born on 14 July 1886 in Kensington, the youngest of the five children of Sir Aston Webb and Lady Marian Webb née 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.
The 1891 census shows him 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.
In the 1901 census he is recorded as a boarding scholar at Charterhouse School, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey. He left the school in 1905 and was a Royal Academy Schools student 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 Pier and Face 8A and 8D 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 also commemorated on both a plaque and on the Roll of Honour in St John the Evangelist Church, Notting Hill as well as on the 1905 Leavers Panel of the Charterhouse School war memorial.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan
