Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Restoration or extension
- District
- Hereford
- Town
- Hereford
- County
- Hereford And Worcester
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
Date: 1924
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 32514
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Current location
Hereford Cathedral
Hereford
Hereford
Hereford And Worcester
HR4 9BL
England
OS Grid Ref: SO 50954 39798
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- CRYPT OF THE LADY CHAPEL RESTORED. ALTAR PIECE ADDED WITH ITS REREDOS. The reredos is in the form of a triptych with two plain arcades and a central panel lettered underneath. The central panel contains three figures – a Roman soldier on the left (a portrait of Basil Webb himself) with St Michael in the centre, and St Ethelbert on the right (holding a model of Hereford Cathedral).
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF BASIL WEBB, SON OF HARRY WEBB, BART. OF HOLME LACY WHO DIED IN WW1 (WORDING UNKNOWN). 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo et in Terra Pax – Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace'. The central panel contains three figures – a Roman soldier on the left (a portrait of Basil Webb himself) with St Michael in the centre, and St Ethelbert on the right (holding a model of Hereford Cathedral).
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Webb, Basil
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Thomas Harry Basil Webb
- WMO ID: 271991
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 22-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Private
Details: Sir Henry Webb, 1st baronet, a liberal MP who during the First World War raised and commanded the 13th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and the 14th Battalion Worcestershire regiment. Basil was his only son. - Reference
- WELLINGTON JOURNAL & SHREWSBURY NEWS by N/A 12, COL 2 Source: Media Library Published:N/A WELLINGTON, SHROPSHIRE
- Hereford Times - 6th December 2017 www.herefordtimes.com/news/15705451.centenary-commemoration-in-hereford-cathedral-of-welsh-guard-killed-at-cambrai/
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