Richard Phillips

Second Lieutenant Richard Hill Phillips was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1897, in King's Norton, the son of Gerald Albert, a manufacturer of bedsteads and safes, and Blanche Alice Phillips (née Sytner), both of Birmingham. At the time of the 1911 Census, the Phillips family were residing at Beechcote, Berkswell.
Aged 18, Phillips died on 25 September 1916, in the Battle of Morval, while serving with the 15th (Service) Battalion (2nd Birmingham), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment on the Western Front.
He is buried in Guards' Cemetery, Lesbouefs.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Phillips, Richard Hill, cwgc.org. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
Category:1897 births
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Buried in France
Category:Second Lieutenants