Lt. Henry Webber, oldest lieutenant in army killed, WW1

Lieutenant Henry Webber, J. P. South Lancashire Regiment (1849 - 1916), the oldest recorded soldier to be killed during the First World War. He had worked at the Stock Exchange since 1872, and was a keen athlete being particularly well known as a cricketer. He was a regular member of the Horley eleven and in later years had a man run for him. He pestered the War Office to be given a commission and eventually was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment and went to France as a transport officer. He was killed by shell fire at Mametz Wood on 21 July 1916 at the age of 68. He left a widow and eight children, three of whom were in the Service (two Colonels and a Major)

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