PHILLIPS, Norman Edgar
| Service Number: | 7521 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 June 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, December 1882 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boiler maker |
| Died: | Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 18 November 1939, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-37. 80. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7521, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 7521, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 7521, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 4 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7521, 4th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
84 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 20th November 1939, Private Norman Edgar Phillips, referred to as Trix, 4th Battalion (Reg No-7521), boilermaker from Harry Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 543 Hunter Street, Newcastle West, N.S.W. and 72 Bishopgate Street, Wickham, N.S.W., father of one (Thelma Florence Phillips (Fuz), born 1909, died 27.7.1932, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W., age 22, unmarked grave?, CATHOLIC 2-33. 71), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 59. CATHOLIC 2-37. 80.
Born at Tamworth, New South Wales about 1880 to Alexander and Sarah Phillips; husband of Mary Ann Phillips nee O'Callaghan (married 1905, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 16.8.1972, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 84, 33 years a widow, sleeping here), Trix enlisted on the 21st June 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 31st October 1917.
Admitted to hospital 5.2.1918 (tonsillitis), 14.3.1918 (myositis - Inflammation of the muscles that are used to move the body), 30.11.1918 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 10.7.1918 (GSW neck).
Invalided to England 15.7.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 14.1.1919.
Trix arrived home invalided on the 27th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 4th September 1919.
Mr. Phillips’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Trix’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 18/11/1939.
Officially commemorated 7.12.1939 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest we forget.
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