Amos Webster

Age 24        Single

Private 102554
239^th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)

Died of wounds on
Saturday 4^th August 1917

Amos was born at his parents', Mr and Mrs John Webster’s home, Wilken Heys Farm, Sabden.  He was the youngest of ten children.  He attended Sabden County School and on leaving began work on his parents' farm.  When he was twenty one Amos’s family took over Green Lane Farm, Downham, Clitheroe. 

In February 1916, he enlisted in to the Royal Lancaster Regiment and after training in England they went out to France.  In early 1917 Amos was transferred into the Machine Gun Corps.

In August 1917 Amos’s parents received the following letter from his comrade and good friend, Pte Proctor of Colne in which he informed them that, 

“Early in the morning Pte. Webster was involved in a charge on the enemy’s trenches.  He received seven wounds to his head, was never conscious and passed peacefully away in the afternoon.”

Amos is buried in the Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France.

In Sabden he has been remembered on both the School and Church Plaques.