Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An interesting Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Pioneer L. V. Phillips, Royal Engineers, later Lieutenant-Colonel, General List, who in civilian life served as Chief Executive Officer to the Permanent Secretary at the War Office

Military Medal, G.V.R. (172551 Pnr: L. Phillips R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (172551 Pnr. L. V. Phillips. R.E.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Lt/Col. L. V. Phillips. Gen. List) very fine or better (4) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.

Lewis Victor Phillips was born in Mile End Old Town, London in April 1897, the son of Israel and Selma Phillips, and was registered a Temporary Boy Clerk with the Civil Service Commission on 14 September 1912. Attesting for the Royal Engineers, he served with the 19th Divisional Signal Company during the Great War, and was awarded the Military Medal.

Resuming his Civil Service career following the cessation of hostilities, the Army Lists 1941-45 show an L. V. Phillips Esq., M.M. in the Department of the Permanent Under Secretary of State for War, progressing to Chief Executive Officer of the same department in 1952. He was granted an Immediate Emergency Commission on the General List in the rank of Second Lieutenant (without pay and allowances from Army Funds) on 28 March 1946, and relinquished his commission as a Lieutenant on 26 July 1952 on ceasing to being employed by the War Office, being granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died at Marylebone, London, in December 1969.