SECOND LIEUTENANT ARTHUR PELHAM WEBB
KING'S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
9TH APRIL 1917 AGE 32
BURIED: TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, FRANCE
The ideal is unspecified but by chance I happen to know something about Lieutenant Webb. After working in the City he decided to become a writer and published two volumes of verse before enlisting in 1915. In a letter to his parents a few days before his death he said, "We live on a high plane out here, and are always cheerful. I do not wish to die, but have no fear of death. Death is but a quest, and I love quests'.
His will revealed a request that Mrs WW Wallace should receive "a diamond ring of great beauty and value" consisting of "one fine diamond in a claw and I wish Lydia to wear it always out of the great love I bear her and I shall hope (for I believe) that I may meet her dear spirit in the space which men call heaven ... I wish it had been God's will that she could have been my wife, nevertheless I love her husband also".
[I am grateful to the Archivist at Sedbergh School for this information.]