Harold Arthur Fenton Webb was born in Melton on 22^nd August 1908. His parents were Arthur Webb, an attendant at St Audry’s Hospital, and Blanche Mabel (née Fenton). In 1914 the family were living in Ufford, Suffolk where the young Harold attended the village school.

Harold married Mary Joyce Cook in 1931 and set up home on the Rivers Estate in Ipswich. In the 1939 Register, Mary can be found living with her mother and sister at 21 Severn Road as Harold was already serving overseas in France with the British Expeditionary Force. Records available suggest that he was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps attached to 2^nd G.H.Q. Artillery Company.

Harold was one of those caught up in the evacuation from Dunkirk, where over a period of ten days between 26^th May and 4^th June 1940, some 338,226 soldiers were taken off the beaches. Sadly, Harold was one of those that did not survive and he is recorded as having died on 29^th May 1940.

He is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial in the Dunkirk Town Cemetery.