Born on 22 January 1886 at Balham, the eldest son of Thomas Henry Webb, bank manager, and Alice Mills, his wife. He entered Merchant Taylors' School, then situated in Charterhouse Square, in 1895 and left in 1902. He received his medical education at Middlesex Hospital where he had a brilliant caree

Born about 1887, he was educated at University College Hospital where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar and won University medals in several subjects, scientific and clinical. He held resident posts there and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but went to Sydney in 1915. He was commission