Samuel PHILLIPS

PHILLIPS, Samuel

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
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World War 1 Service

3 Mar 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 960, 25th Infantry Battalion
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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Biography 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.

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