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176940 232nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Wallace Webb was born in Beccles in1898, the fourth of six sons of William and Edith Webb. The family lived at The Old Brewery House, Bridge Street in Beccles where his father was employed as a maltster’s labourer, they later moved to Stowmarket before moving to 3 Bank buildings, Sudbury.
Wallace enlisted at Warley, Essex and served with the Royal Field Artillery. His older brothers also served; Ernest with a Motor Transport Unit and Leonard with the Royal Fusiliers. Leonard lost his life in October 1916 and is also remembered on the Sudbury War Memorial.
In the last few months of the war the 232nd Brigade was attached to different Divisions as the Allies made the Final Advance in Picardy towards the Armistice: with the 4th Australian Division (15 - 22 September), 46th (North Midlands) Division (22 - 29 September & 4 - 6 October) and 6th Division (6 - 9 October) being sent to GHQ Reserve from 10 October. It is not known if Wallace was wounded during this action or possibly a victim of the influenza pandemic.
Wallace died aged 20 on 11 October 1918, 1 month before the Armistice and lies buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his grave in October 2009 and October 2011.
Wallace was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Wallace is also remembered on the Trinity Congregational Church Memorial which was moved to the United Reformed Church, School Street when Trinity closed. The United Reformed Church closed in 2017 and it is proposed that the memorials from both churches will be relocated to the Sudbury Cemetery Chapel.
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