FRESHWATER - ISLE of WIGHT
Parish War Memorial
Parish War Memorial
Freshwater is a large village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight.
Private Walter PHILLIPS 816
Served as Waterford Phillips Born: Hants, England Enlisted: 2-9-1914, Randwick, New South Wales Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farmer 4th Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action 6-9 August 1915, Gallipoli Son of James Phillips and Pamela Elizabeth Phillips of Whippingham. Husband of Matilda Blanche Phillips, 1 Oak Cottage, Tennysons Rd., Freshwater, Isle of Wight Honoured: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 41 |
Isle of Wight County Press October 9, 1915
THE ISLAND AND THE WAR
ISLAND CASUALTY LIST MISSING
Pte W. Phillips, 4th Infantry, Australian Expeditionary Force (Freshwater)
FRESHWATER - AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER MISSING
Mrs Phillips, of 1 Oak Cottages, Tennyson-road, has received official intimation that her husband, Pte Walter Phillips, serving with the Australian Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli, has been missing since August 6th, and no news of him has since been received. Much sympathy is felt with Mrs Phillips in her anxiety. Her husband is well known at Freshwater. He emigrated to Australia nearly three years ago, and joined the Australian Forces immediately war broke out. He took part in the famous landing operations at Gallipoli, and, after being in action three days, was wounded in the arms and legs and sent back to Egypt. After three months in hospital he returned to the fighting line, and had only been back a short while when the severe fighting took place, after which he was missing.
THE ISLAND AND THE WAR
ISLAND CASUALTY LIST MISSING
Pte W. Phillips, 4th Infantry, Australian Expeditionary Force (Freshwater)
FRESHWATER - AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER MISSING
Mrs Phillips, of 1 Oak Cottages, Tennyson-road, has received official intimation that her husband, Pte Walter Phillips, serving with the Australian Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli, has been missing since August 6th, and no news of him has since been received. Much sympathy is felt with Mrs Phillips in her anxiety. Her husband is well known at Freshwater. He emigrated to Australia nearly three years ago, and joined the Australian Forces immediately war broke out. He took part in the famous landing operations at Gallipoli, and, after being in action three days, was wounded in the arms and legs and sent back to Egypt. After three months in hospital he returned to the fighting line, and had only been back a short while when the severe fighting took place, after which he was missing.