Phillips Thomas
- Full name: Thomas Phillips
- Parents: Son of John and Mary Phillips (nee Furber)
- Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/9th Bn.
- Rank: Private
- Service number: 204279
- Killed in action: 22nd September 1917
- Age: 37
- Awards:
- Victory Medal
- British Medal
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Tyne Cot is well signposted, and is located just south-west of Passchendaele and is the largest CWGC Cemetery on the Western Front with 11,953 burials. This includes those believed to be buried in the Cemetery, or whose graves had been destroyed. This would have occurred because the Cemetery was started in October 1917, after the taking of the nearby village of Paschendaele, but fighting continued in the region and the Germans retook the ground and held it between 13 April to 28 September 1918. |
Tyne Cot Cemetery |
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- Remembered:
- Tyne Cot Cemetery, Flanders
- Reference:
- Panel 33
- Liverpool Town Hall,
Hall of Remberence - Reference:
- Panel 52
Family History
1880
- Thomas Phillips was born at Garmelow, Eccleshall Parish on 20th April
1881 Census living at Garmelow, Eccleshall Parish
- John Phillips (father) age 59
- Mary Phillips (mother) age 27 (nee Furber)
- John (brother) age 11
- Mary (sister) age 12
- William (brother) age 9
- Thomas Phillips age not yet 1
1891 Census still living at Garmelow, Eccleshall Parish
- John Phillips (father) age 70
- Mary Phillips (mother) age 40 (nee Furber)
- Thomas Phillips age 10
- Joseph (brother) age 7
1901 Census now living at Offley Hay, Eccleshall Parish
- John Phillips (father) age 75
- Mary Phillips (mother) age 50 (nee Furber)
- John (brother) age 29
- Thomas Phillips age 21
- Joseph (brother) age 17
- Joseph Furber age 52 (uncle (Mary's brother))
1911 Census:
- Mary Phillips (Thomas's mother)age 60
now a widow living alone in Church Street, Eccleshall. - Thomas Phillips age 29 (a cowman)
now living at 53 Fielding Street, West Derby with the Bradbury family.
We have no information of when he moved out of Eccleshall Parish.
1914:
- Thomas married Emma Jane Caddick (a dairymade, born 13th JUly 1878)
on the 16th of March 1914 in West Derby, in the County of Liverpool.
Both were resident at 53 Fielding Street, West Derby. - The couple had a daughter 'Elsie May' early in the year.
1917:
- Thomas was reported Killed in action at Passchendaele on the 22nd September,
although it could have been one or two days before. - The address of his widow (Emma), is given as 16, Munster Rd., Old Swan, Liverpool.
The family story is that Emma moved there after Thomas joined up,
and stayed there until she died in 1961.
Thomas had a family connection to others on the war memorial.
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Thomas had a brother-in-law, William Caddick who was also killed.
They were the same age and died within 6 weeks of each other.
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Angela Dunkerley in May 2015
on her first ever visit to Garmelow.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Thomas Phillips's Great Granddaughter, Angela Dunkerley (Liverpool) for providing so much information and her enthusism and determination to ensure that Thomas is remembered in the Parish of Eccleshall where he spent many of his early years.
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