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Rflmn. William Phillips
British Army 1st Btn. A Company King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Chelsea, London
(d.17th Feb 1917)
William Phillips was my Great Uncle. He was 26 when he died. A red cross representative recorded the following details of his fate.
"He came from Chelsea & was a mucking in chum of mine. He was lying near me when he was killed. We were in shell holes. They counter attacked and we fell back into some short pieces of trenches. Two bodies were dragged back as we fell back. Then I saw S/Bs taking the papers off them and I asked who they were, it was Phillips and I think Myers, or a name like that. I knew him very well but they were so covered with mud that I could not recognize him but I saw his pay book and had no doubt about him. I helped to pull him through, out of the mud. And I saw him buried in a shell hole at Miraumont It was practically in the line and I do not suppose that I could find the place again myself. The other man was buried with him. He used always to be talking to me about his Mother and Sisters. He was a very nice quiet fellow who would share everything with you. I have shared many of his parcels a very decent fellow. There were not many of us Londoners in the Company so we naturally drifted together. He lived at Norman Road, Kings, Road, Chelsea." Informant Rfn. James 25306 On Ambulance Train. Calais 9 xxx (page torn)
Cpl. William Henry Phillips
British Army 9th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.3rd November 1918)
Harry Phillips served with the 9th Gloucestershire Regiment.
Stkr. Edmund Phillipson
Royal Navy HMS Bittern
from:Preston
(d.4th April 1918)
Pte. Thomas Phillipson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Edward Phillpott
British Army 6th Btn East Kent Regiment
from:London
(d.1st Apr 1918)
Edward Phillpott was my 2nd Great Grand Uncle and the only relative I know of who served and died in WWI.
Pte. Wlliam Walter Phillps
British Army 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Pontardulais
William Philips was a miner before the war and was released from the army early to return to the mines.
A/S/Sjt. John Henry Philo
British Army 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
John Philo was born 1879 in Camberwell. He joined the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (Militia) and then in 1902 joined the Border Regiment as a Lance Corporal and served in Burma. In 1905 he transferred to the reserves and then in 1909 transferred to the RAMC reserves. On the 13th July 1914 he was discharged from the reserves, but was Called up on 1st September 1914. He married in 1915.
Pte. Hugh Philp
British Army 8th Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
from:St Andrews, Scotland
(d.9th April 1917)
Pte. C. W. Philpot
British Army 1st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Hackney
Sgt. George Philpott
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Belfast
(d.2nd May 1916)
George Phillpot died two months before the birth of his daughter Elizabeth. He left behind a widow and 3 children (including Elizabeth). She grew up never knowing a father.
Pte. Francis J. Phippen
British Army 12th Btn. London Regiment
from:East Ham, London
(d.21st Jul 1916)
The only information we have on Francis is a postcard sent to two of his brothers (undated and date stamp unreadable): "Dear Rob & Fred, How are you getting on? We are going to Roehampton near Richmond before long, I think on Thursday. You must write to me when we are moved. From your loving brother Frank."
We also have a telegram dated August 16th stating: "12176 Inform R Phippen Twentysix Regent St Yarraville Victoria Private 1648 F G Phippen vipsani dictators jeremiad. Prelicas 10 6A MC 12th Bath County of London Reg".
Francis died on 21st July 1916 in France (details unknown) and is buried in Warlincourt Halte Military Cemetery, Saulty, Calais.
Sto.2 A. Phipps
Royal Navy HMS Bristol
(d.26th March 1915)
Stoker 2nd Class Phipps was buried in the Magallanes Fiscal Cemetery in Chile.
Pte. Alfred Phipps MM.
British Army 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Oldbury, West Midlands
(d.29th Sep 1918)
My grandad Alfred Phipps served with the 4th Worcestershire Regiment. He went to war without meeting my mother, because he returned to the front early in 1918 and was killed in the September that year, my mom was born in the June that year, that same year in August he was awarded the MM for bravery in the field .
Mjr. Constantine James Phipps MC, DSO.
British Army 2nd Divisional Signals Royal Engineers
Major C.J. Phipps, was a Company Commander with 2nd Divisional Signals and had spent most of the war with unit, he died of the flu in February 1919 and was buried in Duren. Jack Laburn kept his photo and obituary with his own war memorabilia.
L/Cpl Frank Herbert Phipps
British Army 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards
from:Cowley, Oxford
(d.13 April 1918)
Frank Phipps, the son of Mr and Mrs Frederick Phipps of Cowley, Oxford, was an 18 year old electrician when he signed on with the Coldstream Guards in October 1916. After completing basic training at Caterham, he was posted with the 3rd Battalion to France in May 1917. He died of a 'penetrating wound to the chest' sustained at the Battle of Hazebrouck on 13 April 1918. He died in 13 General Hospital, BEF, Boulogne, France, and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
'He Fought for King and Country and Died a Hero's Death' is the inscription on his memorial headstone.
Spr Herbert George Phipps
British Army 66th Field Company Royal Engineers
(d.17th August 1915)
Herbert Phipps was my maternal grandfather and he volunteered when he was in his mid thirties. He died in Gallipoli but how he died was a well kept secret in the family. He left a widow and 4 small daughters. All his letters home were burnt for some reason. I would just like to know what happened to him.
Pte. James Phipps
British Army 7th Battalion South Staffordshire
from:Aston, Birmingham
(d.27th Sep 1916)
I have only recently found out this information about my partner's great grandfather, James Phipps. The family story is that he was hit by the fall out from a shell which de-capitated him. This story was relayed by a returning soldier who knew James' family. His name appears on the Thiepval Monument
Pte. Leonard William Phipps
British Army 21st Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Summerstown
(d.23rd March 1918)
Leonard Phipps was an uncle I never knew.
Pte. George Phipson
British Army 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Lye, Stourbridge
(d.25th Sep 1917)
Records show that George Phipson was serving in France and Flanders and that he died on 25th of September 1917. His older brother William was killed the previous year in what is now Iraq.
Pte. William Phipson
British Army 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Lye, Stourbridge
(d.20th Apr 1916)
Records show that William Phipson died of wounds whilst serving in Mesopotamia on 20th of April 1916. He is buried at the Almara Pt II Cemetery, in Maysan, Iraq. He left behind a wife and four young children.
D. S. Phorson
Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Capt. D. S. Phorson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte,. Claude Pickard
British Army 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders
(d.3rd May 1917)
Pte. Claude Ernest Pickard
British Army 5th Battalion Cameron Highlanders
from:Yorkshire
(d.3rd May 1917)
My great great grandfather's brother was Claude Pickard, who was only 22 when he died in May 1917. As far as I know, he had a friend he enlisted with, and we know certain things about the family and our ancestors but for the most part his life remains a mystery, and how and exactly where he died are unknown to us.
We know the basics, he was apparently born in Shafton, in Yorkshire, he was born in 1895 thereabouts, and also had a few brothers and lots of sisters. I would love to find out more about him, or any pictures if anyone knows of a relationship to him at all.
Pte. William Victor Pickard
British Army 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent
from:Deptford, London
(d.3rd July 1916)
Sgt. Richard Nelson Picken
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned Northumberland Fusiliers 26th Jun 1917
Arthur Pickering
British Army Leicestershire Regiment
from:Leicester
My great grandfather Arthur Pickering served in the Leicester Tigers Regiment and was killed in the First World War. My Grandmother remembered him saying goodbye and leaving her in the house with her siblings when she was about 5 years old and going off to war. She never saw him again. Although I can trace him up to the 1911 census there is no trace of him to be found after this as unfortunately his records were among those destroyed during the Second World War.
He left behind a wife and five children. I do not even have a photograph of him. I can only imagine the sadness and heartbreak for many who lost loved ones during this terrible conflict.
L/Bdr. Ernest Pickering
British Army B Bty. 70th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Atherstone, Warwicks
(d.11th Apr 1918)
Ernest Pickering, born 1882 in Atherstone, Warwickshire joined the colours in 1901 with the 4th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifles Regiment and served in the 2nd Boer Campaign in South Africa. He earned the Orange Free State clasp and both 1901 and 1902 medals. He later transferred to the 2nd Battalion KRR, moving to India where he served for 6 years.
In 1916, at age 35, he answered the call and re-enlisted with the Royal Field Artillery. He served in France and in April 1918, not long after returning from home leave, was killed in action at Arras. His memorial is at Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery in France.
L/Cpl. Gowan Pickering
British Army 9th Batallion West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.9th August 1915)
Driver Joseph Pickering
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery 150th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:6 Carlton Avenue, Rotherham
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