Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 March 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 968

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26 March 2014

Hammer Price:
£490

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut. H. J. Phillips, R. Welsh Fus.) edge bruise, very fine £200-250

Henry John Phillips was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire on 11 April 1880. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th 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. 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.

Captain Phillips died on Malta on 17 May 1914 following an operation for appendicitis. As a youth he had hunted with the Beaufort Hounds and played polo for the North Wilts Club.

With copied service papers and other research.