[4] Webber served in India during the Indian Mutiny, 1857–1860[3] In September 1857 he was posted with the 21 company Royal Engineers who joined the 1st Brigade seeing action at the Betwa River and Jhansi and was twice mentioned in dispatches.
[1] On his return to England, he served in the Brighton district and it was here in 1861 that he married Alice Augusta Gertrude Hanbury Tracy, fourth daughter of Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley.
[1][6] During the Austro-Prussian War, in 1866, Webber was attached to the Prussian army to report on engineering operations and military telegraphs.
[1] Later in 1869, whilst in command of the 22nd company Royal Engineers at Chatham, Webber and his men were lent to the Post Office to assist in constructing and organising the telegraph service.
[3] Webber was promoted again, in January 1882, to the rank of lieutenant colonel and, in August, appointed assistant-adjutant and quartermaster general at the headquarters of the Egyptian Expedition in 1882.
[14] Charles Edmund Webber died in Margate, Kent in 1904 and is buried in the churchyard of St Margaret of Antioch, Lee Green.