PHILLIPS, Harry Rudolph
| Service Number: | 3458 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 55th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney New South Wales, Australia, May 1899 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Council employee |
| Died: | Septicaemia, Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 5 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Baverstock (St. Edith) Churchyard INSCRIPTION RESPONSIVE TO HIS COUNTRY'S CALL HE GAVE HIS LIFE HIS BEST, HIS ALL , Baverstock (St Edith) Churchyard, Baverstock, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3458, 55th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3458, 55th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3458, 55th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 18 and the son of A. E. and Elizabeth Phillips, of 135, Commonwealth St., Sydney.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 5th June......Private Harry Rudolph Phillips was born in 1899 in Sydney, NSW. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 28th December, 1916 stating he was aged 18 years & 7 months (actual age was 17 years & 7 months) and a Council Employee ((listed as Electrician on information provided by his father for the Roll of Honour).
Private Phillips arrived in England for further training on 27th March, 1917 & was posted to 14th Training Battalion, Hurdcott, Wiltshire.
Private Phillips was written up on 21st April, 1917 for abusive language to a N.C.O. & for resisting arrest. He was awarded 28 days detention.
Private Harry Rudolph Phillips was admitted to Fovant Military Hospital on 26th May, 1917 with a Gunshot wound to the foot. He was reported as seriously ill on 4th June, 1917.
Private Harry Rudolph Phillips died at 11.15 a.m. on 5th June, 1917 at Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire from Septicaemia. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Edith’s at Baverstock, Wiltshire, England where 28 other WW1 Australian Soldiers are buried.
[** Pte Alfred John Phillips, an older brother of Pte Harry Phillips (by 2 years), was killed in action in France on 3rd May, 1917. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, aged 21.]
The above is a summary of my research.
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