Lance Corporal Thomas Richard Phillips enlisted in August 1929 and served with the Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War. He married his wife, Eileen, in January of 1940 and they had a son, William Victor, two years later. Following the war he remained with the military.
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The fonds consists of his Soldier’s Service and Pay Book issued13 June 1940; his certificate of transfer to the Army Reserve, 20 December 1945, a photograph of him with another soldier in 1944 and an oversize photograph, presumably of Phillips’s company but it has no identification apart from the fact that it was taken in Pirbright, Surrey by Gwyer Gibbs. Sandhurst Royal Military Academy is located in Pirbright.
Fonds (69-2008) was acquired from V.W. Phillips of Burlington, Ont. in December 2008.
Further accruals are not expected.
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Box G022
F.19 Pay book, photograph, and transfer certificate.
MC 37
Oversize photograph of company.