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2Lt. Frank Philip Sleigh Lacey
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Brentford, Middlesex
(d.29th Mar 1918)
Philip Lacey was the third son of Ernest Matthew Lacey, a consulting engineer. He was born on 22 July 1891 in Brentford. Like his father he attended Dulwich College for boys in London. In 1906 he was articled as a pupil with his father's firm in Westminster. Bound by Indenture, he was apprenticed to an engineering firm, Browett & Lindley, and by 1911 was an assistant as an electrical engineer, following in his father's footsteps. In 1912 he became assistant to his father and was engaged in various engineering schemes.
He began training in the RGA in Nov. 1914 before being posted to Gibraltar in 1915 where he had severe sunstroke in Jan. 1916 and had to be invalided home, to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank. By March 1916 he was fit for duty and was engaged on work connected with the manufacture and inspection of munitions of war.
Ordered to Egypt in 1918 he reached Suez where he enrolled in a course of instruction in flying, and after passing his exams, being one of six out of the 176 who competed, he was appointed flying officer. Unfortunately a few days after taking up duty he developed pleuro-pneumonia, and died in Suez hospital on 29th of March 1918. He never married.
