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Son of Richard PHILP and Gertrude nee MANNING, of Geelong, Victoria, Australia; husband of Kathleen Philp, of "Woodside," Tintern Avenue, Toorak, Melbourne, Australia.

Captain Richard Haigh Philp, of the Royal Field Artillery, formerly of Geelong, has been killed in action in France.  Captain Philp was a grandson of the late Judge Sir William Manning.

Richard William Manning Haig Philp was an architect, originally from Victoria, who was in London at the outbreak of World War 1.  He had prior peace time service in Australia as an artillery officer.  He joined the British Army and was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 15 November 1914.  He was killed in action on 5 October 1916 while serving with the 91st Brigade, Royal Artillery.

Captain Richard Haig Philp, R.A., killed at the Front recently, was a son of the late Mr. Richard Philp, of Geelong, Victoria, and a nephew of the late Mr. Andrew Philp, of Grantham, and of Mr. William Haig Philp, of East Haldon, Queensland.  The deceased was a near relative of Sir Douglas Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in France.  Captain Richard Haigh Philp's cousin, Mr. Samuel Philp, of Mount Whitestone near Grantham, recently left Enoggera camp for Melbourne as a sergeant in the newly formed Motor Transport Corps.  - 21 Oct. 1916

PHILP.—Killed in action in France, on 6th October, Captain R. M. Haig, R.A., son of the late Richard Philp, M.A., LL. D., Dublin, and Mrs. Philp, of Sydney.