PHILLIPS, Samuel
| Other Name: | Sloman, Samuel Phillip - Pre 1912 |
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| Service Number: | 960 |
| Enlisted: | 3 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Coldridge, Devon, England, United Kingdom, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 14 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 960, 25th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 960, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 960, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Changed his name by public proclamation to Samuel Phillips on 27 July 1912 - See Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 4.
Births Mar 1882 Sloman Samuel Philip Crediton 5b 411.
He is remembered on the COLDRIDGE - THE ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 – 1918 and the COLDRIDGE -WAR MEMORIAL.
Wembworthy is a small village, parish and former manor in Mid-Devon, England. It is situated in the valley of the River Taw, 8 miles north-east of the towns of Hatherleigh and 12 miles south of South Molton.
Biography contributed by VWM Australia
Name change - Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954) 29 July 1912: 4. Web. 13 May 2024 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39918023>.
I,-SAMUEL PHILLIP SLOMAN, of Nelson, near Cairns, in the State of Queensland,- Farm Labourer, 1 do hereby give notice that I have assumed and intend henceforth upon all occasions
and at all times to sign and use and be called and known by the Surname of " PHILLIPS," omitting the Christian name of " Phillip ' and the Surname of [ "Sloman," in lieu of and in substitution for my present surname j of " Sloman," and that such intended change or assumption of name is formally declared and evidenced by a Deed Poll under my hand and seal dated this day, and intended to be forthwith enrolled in the office for the Registration of Deeds, etc., in Queensland.
In testimony whereof I do here-by sign and subscribe myself by such my intended future name.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of July, A.D. 1912.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
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