Contributed by:  John Colling, UK
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Thanks to all who looked for information on Henry Hellyer WEBSTER.  We have now found his death report
in the local paper (copied in full below).  It tells us that he was age 20, born in India, and the son of 
the Minister at the Church.  So we now know why he was hard to find.   His father was the Rev. Ebenezer 
WEBSTER, M.A., the Wesleyan Methodist Minister in Cleethorpes from 1913 to 1920, who died in 1954, age 92, 
and who was one of the Ministers at the original dedication service on 25th June 1921.

Henry H WEBSTER could be the Henry Hellyer WEBSTER listed on the CWGC site as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 
Lincolnshire Regiment, who died in 1918, but with no details of age or relations given.

GRIMSBY NEWS : May 3 1918 : SEC - LIEUT HARRY WEBSTER, only son of the Rev & Mrs E Webster, of Cleethorpes, 
is reported killed in action in Flanders, April 17th. Two years ago he left his engineering studies in the Hull 
Technical College to enlist as a private in the King's Royal Rifles, and was at once selected for promotion.  He 
received his first stripe shortly after joining and his second a few weeks later.  After training in the 17th O.C.B. 
at Rhyl he received his commission in the Lincolnshire Regiment a year ago and went to the Western Front in June, 
where he saw service in all parts of the line, from St Quentin to Ypres.  He took part in the heavy fighting last 
March, when his battalion (Lincolns), so gloriously held the line.  A few days before his death he suceeded to the 
command of his company, and as one of his comrades says in a letter to the bereaved parents, he played a very 
brave part during the German attack in the Lys sector, where he was killed instantly by a 1" shell.  The chaplain 
writes that he was beloved by all in the battalion, and one of the men of his company adds that they would have 
followed him anywhere.

Harry Webster was born in India, and was only 20 when he died for the great cause.  He held the championship 
badge for athletics in the Wolsingham Grammar School, and after coming to Cleethorpes became a hearty
worker among the young people, taking a large share in the Sunday School, Boys Life Brigade, and similar work. 
He was a keen sportsman and greatly loved and admired by the young people he came in contact with, as well 
as by the older members of the congregation attending the Wesleyan Church, who knew his stirling worth and 
appreciated it.