799598, Webster, Ernest attested in Toronto with the 134th Battalion, 48th Highlanders on 24 Jan 1916. He declared he was Church of England and was born in St Helens, Lancashire, England spending 4 years as a Private in the Sought Lancashire Regiment.  (The 134th Battalion was raised as a fighting battalion as the army planned to create a 5th Division. Once in England they trained for months and then the army decided they did not need a 5th Division and the 134th Bn was disbanded and the troops sent to other units.)

He sailed from Halifax on the SS Scotian on 8 August 1916 arriving in England on 17 August. With the 134th Bn he was made Lance Corporal on 23 May 1917 then Acting Corporal on 28 August 1017. He reverted to Private on 6 March 1918 and taken on strength of the 12th Reserve Battalion in England after the 134th was demobilized on 12 February.

He was SOS the 12th Battalion on 16 March 1918 and sent to the 15th Battalion, 48th Highlanders in the lines in France. He remained with the 15th until sent to Canadian Corps Survey Section on 17 June 1918. (The 15th Battalion during those weeks was in and out of the lines at Bully Grenay, the Hill 70 sector, Scarpe, Gouy Servins and La Thieuloye.)

He received an injury to his right cornea on 24 December 1918. He was posted, sick, to General Depot (Field) on 20 Jan 1919, sent to hospital at Orpington (a town in greater London)  on 21 January  and discharged in the British Isles on 16 May 1919. He had changed his address, on 12 June 1917 to 132 Tarvin Rd, Chester, England)

NOK: Rachel Webster, wife, at 92 Chester Avenue, Toronto. He had two children, Ernest and Gwendoline: father Peter and Mother Sarah.