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• Name PHILLIPS
• Initials B
• First name BENJAMIN
• Place of birth Marple
• Country Cheshire, England
• Last residence Canada
• Family Son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Alice Phillips, of 1, Derby St.
  Five brothers: George, Ernest, Samuel, Leonard and Arthur. One sister, Matilda.
• Profession Spinner
• Extra info George and Benjamin emigrated to Canada; they returned when the war broke out.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Stockport
• Service number 83296
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 216th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Enlisted into the Cheshire Regiment (59070); transferred to the Machine Gun Corps; went overseas May 1917

Death

• Wounded 10 November; Dirty Bucket; defensive guns were heavily shelled.
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in n°17 CCS
• Date of death 20 November 1917
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - B - 4

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