Officers Q.S.A. to Lt. Phillips Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 officially engraved naming to: Lieut. H. J. Phillips, R. Welsh Fus.
Henry John Phillips was born at Chippenham, Wiltshire on 11 April 1880. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 9 September 1900.
From the Militia he was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 14 September 1901. Served in South Africa, 1901-02 (Medal & 5 clasps). Promoted to Lieutenant in 1905 and to Captain in 1911, he was appointed Adjutant of the 7th (Merioneth & Montgomery) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 5 April 1910.
Phillips died on Malta on 17 May 1914 following an operation for appendicitis. At the time he had been selected for Staff College, for which he was studying for his exams. As a youth he had hunted with the Beaufort Hounds and the Atherstone, where he '...earned a reputation for going very straight', latterly riding out with the United Hunt of Ireland and played polo for the North Wiltshire Club. Whilst in South Africa he had won a number of horse races, including a £50 race aboard 'Groggy', besides taking a great interest in hunting, which saw him add jackal to his bag. He played cricket for the Regiment XI and at one time for the Gentleman of Cheshire, being a Life Member; sold together with copied research including letters from Mr L. W. Lord, who had this Medal in his cabinets during the 1980's.
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