2nd Lieutenant, 4th attached to 1st South Staffordshire Regiment killed in action 4th October 1917 aged 31. Son of William Morton Philips, of Heybridge, Tean, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs; husband of Eileen Mary Philips, of Downs, Haywards Heath, Sussex.

Commemorated on a memorial and his Battlefield Cross in St Mary and All Saints church, Checkley, Staffordshire.He is buried at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
His Battlefield Cross