Joseph Ambrose Phillips
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No. 445013. Private. Civil Service Rifles. Joined up Jan 4. 1917. Home Easter. France in May Oct. 59 T Mortar Battery B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force). Home Feb. 1918. Killed March 23 1918 by premature explosion.' Note: 10th (County of London) (Hackney) London Regiment. Previously 11th Rifle Brigade. Killed in action 20 March 1918 according to roll-of-honour.com (Isle of Man database). (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/12)
External sources: 29 Prospect Hill