Name
Gerald Huntley Cuthbert Philip
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Hampshire Regiment
3rd Bn. attd. 15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RYDE BOROUGH CEMETERY
OG. N. 1947.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Huntly Philip came to the College at the age of twelve in 1910, and left about a year later. His cousin, who was at St. Edmund's about the same time, writes: “My cousin, 2nd Lieut. G. Huntly Philip, was in the Hampshire Regt. in the 3rd Battalion. He went to France and was wounded on October 6th. He lay for eight hours on the field before he was picked up. Two men went out to fetch him in; one of them was killed. Then it took five hours to get him to the clearing station."
Huntly was in hospital at Rouen for some time, then he was sent to England, and was in hospital in London. He gradually got worse, septic poisoning set in and he died on November 11th, and was buried at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on November 15th.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
