PHILLIPS, Waterford (Walter)

Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: CWGC

Private
4th Battalion
Australian Infantry

Walter was born 1865 in Cross Lane, Newport to James & Pamela (nee WILLIAMS) PHILLIPS. In 1894 at St. Paul’s Church, Barton he married Matilda Blanche TRANTER & they moved to West Wight. Matila was living at 1 Oak Cottages, Tennyson Road in Freshwater around the time of Walter’s death.

Walter was an experienced soldier having served before in the Dorsetshire Regiment. Walter, aged 50, was Killed in Action sometime between the 6th & the 9th of August 1915. He was buried close to where he fell, but over the course of the War his grave was lost. Walter is therefore commemorated by the Commission upon the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli in Turkey together with 4,987 of his First World War comrades.

Walter is also remembered on the Australian National & Freshwater War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.