Arthur Phillips

Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Arthur Phillips

Company Quartermaster, Sergeant No. 22810

20th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Killed in action in France (Battle of the Somme) 1 July 1916. Age 35.

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1 D 8 B and 8 C.

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Born in Malpas in 1881 (baptised 3rd April 1881).

Eldest son of the James and Ann Phillips of Edge, Malpas.

Married Mary Bebb Ryder) of 108 Salisbury Road, Wavertree, Liverpool in 1904.

Father of James Arthur, Nancy Mary, Harry Stanley and Kathleen L.

Arthur was a police inspector stationed at Wallasey.

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Arthur enlisted and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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Report in the Liverpool Daily Post 21st July 1916 regarding the death of Arthur Phillips
"Inspector A. Phillips, a well-known police officer in the New Brighton district for several years, has been killed. He was thirty-five years of age and a native of Malpas, had been in the Cheshire Constabulary for fourteen years, and was promoted from sergeant to inspector at the time of the borough incorporation of Wallasey.

When the "Pals" were being formed he joined them with the rank of sergeant, and eventually became a company quartermaster-sergeant. Inspector Phillips, who was a most popular non-commissioned officer, leaves a wife and four children."

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Arthur Phillips