Sgt. Ernest Stanley Phillips
Royal Air Force 83 Squadron
(d.21st April 1941)
My mother was married to Ernest Phillips for only a few months before he died in a Hampden bomber raid. My mother had said they were counting planes as the unit returned and had a fear that he was in the missing one(s). She was returned his inscribed burnt out watch that was recovered from the wreckage and which we still have in the family today. They did not have children and my mother re-married in 1942 subsequently producing me and my three sisters. Throughout her life she longed for what would have been if he had not been killed, very sad.
