Name
Philip Mundy Chaworth-Musters (MC)
09 May 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/07/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Field Artillery
Div. Trench Mortar Officer, 25th Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
II. G. 23.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED TO YOU BE LIGHT AND LIFE AND JOY ALWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Bengeo School Location t.b.c., War Memorial Chapel Rugby School, Family Memorial at All Saints Church, Annesley, Notts., Tythby Cum Cropwell Butler Tythby Cemetery Nottinghamshire, Tythby Cum Cropwell Butler Tythby Church Nottinghamshire
Pre War
Philip Mundy Chaworth-Musters was born on 9th April 1895 at Annesley Hall, Notts., to parents John Patricius and Mary Ann (nee Sharpe). He had four sisters and six brothers, five also served in WW1 and two of them also fell.
In 1901 he was living at Annesley Hall, with his parents and some of his siblings, his father was a Landowner and Colliery Proprietor living on his own means. The 1911 census lists Philip, aged 15, at Rugby School.
He later attended Woolwich Academy.
Wartime Service
Philip joined Royal Field Artillery shortly after the outbreak of the war. In October 1914 he gained his commission to Lieutenant and was posted to 28th Brigade.
He served at Mons and Ypres and served continuously in France and Flanders for the next 33 months. He was promoted to Temp.Captain in 1916 and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry for saving a wounded man, getting him back to his own lines and then going out again and manning a gun. In July 1917 he was stationed near Hooge in Flanders and on July 18th he was killed instantly when a British shell exploded near him.
Additional Information
Probate records show him residing at Annesley Park, Notts. and he left £731 14s 2d to his father. His brothers, Patricius George, Lieut. K.R.R.C. and Robert, Capt. K.R.R.C.also fell as did their cousin 2nd Lieut. Roger Michael (leicester Regt. and R.F.C.)
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Ann Hacke, Terry & Glenis Collins
