The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G E Phipps

Private George Edward PHIPPS, L/8555, 2nd Battalion, "D" Company, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died at Entille, Turkey, Prisoner of War Camp, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 30th July 1916, age 29.

16th September 1883, St Luke, Deptford, Edward Augustus Phipps, age 23, bachelor, house decorator, ?????? Terrace, Church Street, Deptford, father Augustus Thomas Phipps, commercial clerk, married *Alice Louisa Maude Bassett, age 21, spinster, Deptford, father Alfred Bassett, deceased, baker.

Born 23rd March 1887, Deptford, Kent, eldest son of Edward Augustus & *Alice Louisa Maude Phipps, 21 Sayes Court Street, Deptford, SE.

*1898 June, Greenwich Registration District, Alice L Phipps, died age 34.

Educated Grove Street School, Deptford, Kent.

1911 Census - Military, India - George Edward Phipps, Private, age 23, single, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, born Deptford, Kent.

1911 Census - 21 Sayes Court Street, Deptford, SE. - **Edward Augustus Phipps, head, age 50, widower, house painter, worker, born Barnsbury, Middlesex; Charles Alfred Phipps, son, age 18, single, junior clerk, worker, born Charles Alfred PhippsDeptford, London.

**8th February 1916, Charles Alfred Phipps, buried Southwark.

Enlisted 1902, Stratford, Essex.

Next of Kin (brother) - Charles Alfred Phipps.

Served 12 years in India; 6th February 1915, posted Asiatic Theatre of War, with the Indian Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia, was one of the members of General Townshend's Force in the defence of Kut; 29th April 1916, Kut-al-Amara, taken prisoner by the Turks, interred at Entille; 4th November 1918, report from Basra - unofficially reported died of illness contracted whilst a Prisoner of War.

Unmarried.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. P. 1., Iraq.

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