Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Webber family group:

Four: Leading Stoker S. C. Webber, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Ord., H.M.S. Dwarf) some edge bruising; 1914-15 Star (183706 Sto.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (183706 L. Sto., R.N.)

China 1900, no clasp (H. F. Webber, Sergt., R.M., H.M.S. Pique)

Three: Constable W. Webber, Metropolitan Police

Jubilee 1897, Metropolitan Police (P.C., 3rd Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police (P.C., 5th Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police (P.C.) nearly very fine and better (8) £360-400

Leading Stoker Samuel Callard Webber, son of Frederick and Mary Ann Webber, and a native of Paignton, Devon; was killed on 16 June 1919. Having served in and survived the Boer and Great Wars, he was killed aboard the paddle minesweeper Kinross of 800 tons, when she hit a mine in the Aegean Sea.

In a published roll the Q.S.A. Medal to S. C. Webber is listed as being ‘returned’.