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Reginald Claude Eldon Webb was born in 1898 in East Orchard, Dorset. He was the son of George Webb, a schoolmaster, and Edith Tryphena Webb (née Jones). (NB As Edith Jones she had married James Harding who died in 1895. She remarried under the name Harding in 1896.) Known as 'Claude' in the family, they lived at Farnham, Blandford, Dorset. At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, a scholar and living at School House, East Orchard, Shaftesbury, Dorset. He enlisted in Weymouth, Dorset, as a Private in the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment (Service No. 15564). He served in France & Flanders and was awarded the Victory and British War medals. At the time of his death on 3rd Sep 1916 he had been attached to the Wiltshire Regiment when he was presumed killed in action. His name appears on the Loos Memorial (Dud Corner Cemetery), Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas de Calais, France (grave id. Panel 76). He is remembered on the memorial window in St. Thomas's Church, East Orchard.

Claude's half brothers Alfred John (b.1895) and Charles Frederick Ratcliffe (b.1890) also served in the war.

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Hector Card was born in 1891 in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, and baptised there on 18th October, 1891. He was the son of Harry Card, a farm labourer, and Ellen Card (nee Bailey). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, working as a bricklayer's labourer and living at Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. He enlisted in Wimborne, Dorset, on 2nd February, 1915, as a Private in the 3rd Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment (Service No. 12892) and served in the United Kingdom. He died of pneumonia on 21st February, 1915, at the Sidney Hall Military Hospital, Weymouth, 19 days after enlisting and was buried at Abbotsbury Road Cemetery, Weymouth on the 25th February, 1915. (grave id. B. "Gen" 446). His length of service precluded the award of any medals. He is remembered on the Sixpenny Handley War Memorial.