Name
Richard Philips
1900
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/08/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
49235
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEACON CEMETERY, SAILLY-LAURETTE
II. G. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
Birchanger War Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Richard Phillips was born in 1900 in Bishops Stortford to Richard and Emma Phillips. On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at The Green, Birchanger, Bishops Stortford and was a schoolboy. His father was nurseryman labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Saffron Walden, Essex and served with the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. He was killed in action in France.
Additional Information
His father Richard received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £9 6s 1d.
N.B. Birchanger is on the outskirts of Bishop's Stortford and is now in Essex.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
