Military History

Embarked Fremantle per ‘Port Lincoln’ A17 for Egypt 30.6.1917.
Roll Rank Trooper
Roll Unit No. 3 Camel Corps.
Webb disembarked at Suez with his Regiment and joined the Imperial Camel Brigade 6.8.1917. He was posted to the No 4 Section Camel Corps 4.10.1917. The Imperial Camel Corps fought to destroy the Turkish defensive line between Gaza and Beersheba in November 1917. Webb became ill in the field with a varicocele 22.1.1918. He was taken to the 44th Stationary Hospital at El Arish then transferred to 14th General Hospital at Port Said 25.1.1918. He was transferred to a Rest Camp to convalesce 12.3.1918. Webb marched out to Abbassia 26.3.1918 and was posted to 4th Battalion Camel Corps 30.4.1918. The AIF disbanded most of its Camel Corps from June 1918 , as horses were felt to be faster and more efficient with fodder and water. Men from the Camel Corps were placed in the 14th and 15th Light Horse Regiments (AWM Imperial Camel Corps). Webb was transferred to 15th Light Horse Regtiment 13.11.1918 - 15.12.1918. He was hospitalised with a disability 23.11.1918 and then admitted to the 2nd Australian General Hospital at Moascar with malaria 18.1.1919. Webb was demobilised and listed for return home to Australia as an invalid with malaria.
Embarked Kantara per HT ‘Port Sydney’ 4.3.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 31.3.1919.
Discharged 1.10.1919
Final Rank Private 15th Light Horse Bde.
Medical Condition Invalided with Malaria.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photos HMAT 'Port Lincoln'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM PB 0867
             4th Bn. ANZAC Section, Imperial Camel Corps at Abassia 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM H02692
             Panorama of the 14th General Hospital Port Said, 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P08401.015
             Horse Lines and  tents of the 15th Light Horse at Simbellawin, Nile Delta, 1919. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM B01326
            

Information Source
AWM PB 0867. HMAT 'Port Lincoln'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM H02692. 4th Bn. ANZAC Section, Imperial Camel Corps at Abassia 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM P08401.015. Panorama of the 14th General Hospital Port Said, 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM B01326. Horse Lines and tents of the 15th Light Horse at Simbellawin, Nile Delta, 1919. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Rolls Robert Edward Webb.
AWM Imperial Camel Corps
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Webb Robert Edward
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