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Capt M A Phillips, Castle Douglas

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:15 pm    Post subject: Capt M A Phillips, Castle Douglas Reply with quote

UKNIWM Ref: 9030

This is one of 5 original Great War battlefield crosses, now memorials in St Ninian’s Episcopal Church, Castle Douglas at OS Map Ref: NX 765 619.

Name: PHILLIPS, MAURICE ALDCROFT
Initials: M A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: 31st Bty.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 21/05/1915
Additional information: Son of Charles Aldcroft Phillips and Constance Phillips, of Dildawn, Castle-Douglas.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. D. 15.
Cemetery: LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE

Capt Phillips was educated at Malvern and RMA Woolwich and originally commissioned into the RHA, transferring to RFA later. He was well known in hunting and fishing circles and his father was Second in Command of the Stewartry Volunteer Battalion KOSB as a Captain during the war.He had been sent to the front line trenches to direct fire and he was sleeping when he was killed by a shell burst. He was originally buried in a small cemetery at the rear of the line – his body was later removed to his final resting place.He is not listed on SNWM but is listed on Rhonehouse Village memorial.





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PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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