Webb first served as a private in the
Honourable Artillery Company before being commissioned into the
Royal Flying Corps as a second lieutenant on 10 March 1916. After completing pilot's training he was appointed a flying officer on 3 July 1916, and was assigned to No. 25 Squadron in France on 4 July. and then posted to a squadron in England, where he acted as instructor, and for a time as a squadron commander. Webb was then reassigned to No. 70 Squadron as a
Sopwith Camel pilot on 21 June 1917 for his return to combat. While test flying a new Camel on 12 July, he became the first pilot to score a victory in the type by wounding the crew of a German two-seater and forcing them down onto a British airfield into captivity. On 17 July, he sent down two
Albatros D.Vs out of control in separate actions; in one of these dogfights, he wounded German ace
Oberflugmeister Karl Meyer. On 26 July, he killed
Leutnant Otto Brauneck while destroying his Albatros D.V. Webb scored twice more on the 28th, and followed this with three more, his last victories, on 13 August 1917. Three days later, near Polygon Wood, he was last seen diving away from his patrol after two German aircraft. He fell under the guns of
Werner Voss. As a Commonwealth flier of the Western Front with no known grave he is commemorated at the
Arras Flying Services Memorial, and also, alongside his brother Lieutenant Paul Frederic Hobson Webb, who was killed in action on 7 July 1918 while serving in
No. 27 Squadron RAF, on the War Memorial at
Dunwich, Suffolk. ==List of aerial victories==