PHILLIPS, Albert Victor
| Service Number: | 7059 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tea Tree Gully, South Australia, 26 May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Tea Tree Gully, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 21 September 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Payneham District Council Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7059, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 7059, 10th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 7059, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Modbury High School
Albert Phillips was born in Tea tree gully, South Australia on 26th May 1893. He worked as a labourer before he enlisted in the war and his job consisted of digging trenches, unloading building materials, and preparing job sites. He didn’t have any children and wasn’t married.
He was killed during the war, he and 5 other members of the 10th battalion were hit by an artillery shell while digging out a trench, when he was being carried to a pillbox he died while in a stretcher.
He was awarded 3 medals. memorial scroll, memorial plaque, and the victory medal after he died. His name has been placed at multiple memorials including the Adelaide national war memorial, the Australian war memorial roll of Honour, the Henin gate memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the missing of the Ypres salient), Raynham district council roll of Honour.
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