Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Phillips, Lancashire Fusiliers, killed in action on the Western Front, 26 August 1914

British War and Victory Medals (7984 Pte. J. Phillips. Lan. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (James Phillips) in card envelope, very fine (3) £160-200

James Phillips was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers at Bury, Lancashire. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action during the first month of hostilities, on 26 August 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.