OBITUARY.
—, —-t—"I-*-*-GOLONEL WHiIiIAM IfOI/DEN WEBH. Tko doath is announced from Nelsoii of Colonel William Iluldcji Webly. at oao timo Commandant. of the New jsoiitai-i.fi ■ Forces,* a'n office? well kno«m tiiroiigliout the Dominion. Coloijol Webb "was born at ICsspudon, Herts, in 1843= lii tl» year 1861 ho obtained n commission iii tko British Army as an ensign, and joined the Uotivhay Eui-upe.iu Regiment. at Kttrraeheo, in India, iiiiti afterttwds : served with Her Majesty's lOi'tls Foot (now the Second Battalion, Leicester : •Regfanont). S& yeare (later lie was promoted to bo lieutenant, and was., adjutant to Jiis _ regiment fbr sovan ; years prior U his retirement in IS7B, ■after liis return.ta England, tje eaiim > to New Zealand in l'o?«, and oil January 1, 1880, was appointed District; Adjutant for Nelson, West-Uwd, and Marlborough. In 1831 ho accepted Ill's ■ command of the Gtago l)is!.i;ct, with ; tho rank of licutenant-Colone!. Ten years later lib was transferred to the cumin and of the Canterbury Disirh i, and iu 1903 was appointed to the command of the Welliaigton District. In August of that year lie was mado president of the G&ntrnl Hoard of Military Examinations, ahd acted as Commandant of tko Forces On tlio K>si;tn.''if,ion of Major-General Babingtoii in IBfiS. TJireo months later lie was ftp.pomtod secretary ■aud.jiietnbef of tlio Connril of Defence, and promoted to. tlio rank of Colonel. Ho has been living in tofcire- : ment in Nelson for sqto.o time past. 11l many respects the late Colonel Webb was a remarkable officer. One . ■of liis greatest points was thoroughness, ■ which lie carried through without even tiio of harassing liis subsr-' dinates. At nianagitrg a camp, *a : military office, or a bi'g cereiiionial parade he had few equals. In his long career thero is not recorded ii single hitch in any of liis arrangements jb connection with a big assemblage af troops. Bo was in command of the Ota-go Vohmtem on sttcfi occasions as ■'the yfsit of H.B.H. the Duke of Cotiv\will ami fork (nmv His Majesty the King), the visit of the Imperial troops, and the organising and dispatch of contingents for the Squtli African Will - . On suali occasions ji'e invatijibly calculated oast eaeh detail, how fair each unit would hare to march., how long it, would have to stand on parade, what the strain on the liveit would be likely to bo, and where the Crowd would be likely to give trouble through patriotic oyer-eageniess. In camp, anything in tlio nature of a disturbance was ncrSr dreamt of when he was in charge. As ft "drill,' 1 possessed' of a fine word of command, he was an adopt, at putting a battalion (or oven a largo body of troops) through its .prices.'' His phltevtltropv and Mildly nature til private life were also well know-it to his Miner esrdo of friends, ' 1
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2146, 12 May 1914, Page 6
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466OBITUARY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2146, 12 May 1914, Page 6
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