PHILLIPS, Gordon Alexander
| Service Number: | 404988 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 January 1941, Brisbane, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Pilot Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 500 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 28 March 1915 |
| Home Town: | Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Maryborough State School, Maryborough Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Commercial Traveller E. Sacks and Co. Pty. Ltd. |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Algeria, 26 April 1943, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
El Alia Cemetery 12. H. 32 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Maryborough WW2 RAAF Enlistment Roll of Honour, Townsville Northern Travellers Lodge No 384 UGLQ Memorial Bible |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Pilot Officer, 404988 | |
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| 5 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 404988, No. 500 Squadron (RAF), Brisbane, Qld. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfred and Mary Isobel Phillips; husband of Evelyn Brock Phillips, of Kedron, Queensland, Australia.
Gordon Alexander Phillips was born on the 28th of March 1915, to Mary and Alfred Phillips, in Maryborough, Queensland. Gordon was educated at Maryborough Grammar School and employed as a commercial traveller for E Sacks and Co Pty Ltd. Gordon married his fiancée Miss Evelyn Brock Hemstedt on the 22nd of June 1940.
Gordon enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve on the 10th of June 1940 and then transferred to the full time Air Force six months later on the 1st of January 1941. Eventually posting to 500 Squadron in the United Kingdom, Gordon was deployed in the European Theatre. On the 26th of April 1943, Pilot Officer Gordon Alexander Phillips was shot down and killed near Cape Tenes, Algeria in the Middle East.
His obituary was published in “The Telegraph, Thursday 10th of June 1943, Page 2, War Causalities” –
Mrs. Evelyn Phillips, of Kedron Street Kedron, has been advised that her husband, Pilot Officer Gordon Alexander Phillips, lost his life as a result of air operations in North Africa on April 26. Pilot Officer Phillips served in England before being posted to North Africa. He was educated at the Maryborough Grammar School, and was a rowing enthusiast, being a Queensland representative in the King's Cup in 1934.
Brother Gordon Alexander Phillips was initiated into Northern Travelers’ Lodge No. 384, holdon under the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, on the 16th of March 1940.
References –
NAA Website
QLD BDM Website
Trove NLA Website
Samual Cox, PM, August 2024
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