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Full Name: | Joseph Edward Webster |
Nationality: | British |
Sport: | Long-distance running |
Event: | 10,000 metres |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1902 |
Birth Place: | Rowley Regis, England |
Death Place: | Italy |
Joseph Edward Webster (15 June 1902 − 22 August 1945) was a British long-distance runner.[1] He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2] He was killed in a military vehicle accident during World War II.[3]
Webster served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War and was killed in a road accident in Italy on 21 August 1945, a month before he was to be demobilized. He is buried at Salerno War Cemetery.