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In memory of
Flying Officer
 HERBERT  WEBB

who died on January 31, 1944

Military Service:

Service Number: J/11284
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 608 Sqdn.

Additional Information:

Son of Joseph and Alice M. Webb, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 473 of the
Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Burial Information:

Cemetery:
MALTA MEMORIAL
Malta

Grave Reference: Panel 16, Column 1.

Location:The MALTA MEMORIAL is situated in the area of Floriana and is easily identified by the Golden Eagle which surmounts the column. It stands outside the King's Gate, the main entrance to Valletta.

The Memorial takes the form of a column fifteen metres high of travertine marble from Tivoli in the Sabine Hills near Rome, incised with a a light reticulated pattern and surmounted by a gilded bronze eagle two metres high. The column stands on a circular base around which the names are commemorated on bronze panels.

The MALTA MEMORIAL, built on a site generously provided by the Government of Malta, commemorates those who lost their lives whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave.

The bravery of the people of the island of Malta between the years 1940 - 1942 was honoured with the unique award of the George Cross.


Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Updated: 2003-2-24