PHILLIPS, Mozart Aquila
| Service Number: | 58837 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fitzroy North, Victoria, Australia, 10 June 1894 |
| Home Town: | Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Musician |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 6 September 1937, aged 43 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 3 (UNITING) I. 21. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 May 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 58837, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 58837, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked Private, 58837, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 4 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 58837, 35th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit with epilepsy |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
83 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 7th September 1937, Private Mozart Aquila Phillips, 35th Battalion (Reg No-58837), musician from 216 Edgecliff Road, Woollahra, New South Wales and 6 Oliver Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. METHODIST 3 (UNITING) I. 21.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134950154 - funeral notice states service.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134943937 - bereavement notice.
Born at Fitzroy North, Victoria on the 10th June 1894 to Moses and Amelia May Phillips nee Sims of 34 Waterloo Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W. and 19 Cleary Street, Hamilton, N.S.W.; husband of Violet Sadie Phillips nee ? (married?, died?), Mozart enlisted August 1914 with the 4th Battalion at Randwick, N.S.W.
For reasons unknown, Mozart reenlisted April 1918 with the 10th General Service (N.S.W.) Reinforcements at Darlinghurst, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital at sea 4.8.1918 (tonsillitis), 21.3.1919 (acute pharyngitis), Mr Phillips returned home April 1919, being discharged medically unfit with epilepsy on the 4th January 1920.
Mozart’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any other known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=32238#2
Lest We Forget.
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