Webb retired from the game in 1910 and joined the Army, serving as a catering orderly in the West Yorkshire Regiment.
The 20-year old Seed joined the 8th battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment and was drafted to France.
In 1768, the regiment under Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, arrived in Boston via Halifax, during the crisis surrounding the Townshend Acts.
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In a show of force, the 14th and 29th were marched though the town to erect a tent city on Boston Common.
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Detachments of the two regiments were sent to take possession of Faneuil Hall, the "unofficial" headquarters of the Sons of Liberty where they seized all of the firearms stored there.
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He was commissioned into the Connaught Rangers, in which he served for fifteen years; after leaving the Regular Army he joined the Territorial Army and went on to command the 6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.