Webb, Geoffrey Fairbank

Monuments Men

Date of birth:: May 9th, 1898 (Birkenhead, United Kingdom)
Date of death:: July 17th, 1970 (Ffynone/Swansea, Wales)
Service number:: 325593
Nationality:: British

Biography

25th July 1944: Second Lieutenant

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Mentioned in Dispatches

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
Unit:: G-5 (Civil Affairs) Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), Allied Forces
Awarded on:: August 2nd, 1945

Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Colonel
Unit:: Monuments Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) Section, G-5 (Civil Affairs) Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), Allied Forces
Awarded on:: November 14th, 1947

"For exceptionally meritorious achievement which aided the United States in the prosecution off the war against the enemy in continental Europe, as Chief, Monuments and Fine Arts Section, Civil Affairs Division, COSSAC, and later G-5 Division, SHAEF, from January 1944 to July 1945. Lieutenant Colonel Webb played a leading part in the formulation of policy and the direction of field operations incidental to the recovery and restoration of art objects looted by the Nais. His high spirit of cooperation, sound planning ability, and superior devotion to duty won him the confidence and esteem of his American associates and contributed immeasurably to the effectiveness of the restitution program."