Phillips, Frederick John: Service no. 769601

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Summary of Service for Frederick John Phillips, reg. no. 769601

Date	Event	Remarks
May 20, 1891	Born	Born in the Isle of Wight, England.
January 3, 1916	Enlisted	Enlisted in Toronto, Ontario 124th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F.
January 31, 1916	Inoculated for Ant-Typhoid
February 2, 1916	Vaccinated
March 4, 1916	Inoculated for Ant-Typhoid
March 9, 1916	Inoculated for Ant-Typhoid
July 31, 1916	Submits Will	Private Phillips bequeaths his Estate to his mother, Mrs. Fanny Phillips. It is witnesses by B.T. Gordon (possibly Robert Gordon, reg. no. 770234)and William George Lale, reg. no 770287, who as also born on the Isle of Wight.
August 1, 1916	Assigned Pay	Assigns $20.00 per month of his pay to his mother, Mrs. #1 Albion Western Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
August 7, 1916	Embarked Halifax
August 18, 1916	Arrived Liverpool
October 10, 1916	Transferred	Transferred from 124th Overseas Battalion to 18th Battalion, Bramshott, England.
October 11, 1916	Arrives Canadian Base Depot, France	Arrives in France and Taken On Strength with the 18th Battalion.
November 5, 1916	Arrives in the field	Temporarily assigned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenching Battalion. The Battalion was located in Hersin, France. Their War Diary relates for that date: “Strength Increase:- 18th Bn. -200 OR’s, 19th Bn. 9 OR’s, 20th Bn. 12 OR’s, 22nd Bn. 13 OR’s.
February 23, 1917	To Field Ambulance	Arrives No. 3 Canadian Field Ambulance with otitis media, an inflammation of the middle ear. The 2nd Cdn. Entrenching Battalion makes note 1 other rank was sent to the Field Ambulance.
March 5, 1917	No. 2 General Hospital	Le Harve, France
March 6, 1917	Canadian Base Depot	Classed B
March 29, 1917	No. 4 Convalescent Hospital	Noted that otitis media condition is chronic.
April 3, 1917	Discharged for Reinforcement	Le Harve, France
April 4, 1917	Canadian Base Depot	Arrives C.B.D.
April 15, 1917	Arrives 2nd Cdn. Entrenching Battalion	Arrives along with six other men of the 18th Battalion at Hersin, France. The War Diary notes that the Germans shelled their billets with approximately 50 rounds of 6” calibre shells.
April 16, 1917	Joins 18th Battalion	Arrives Thelus Sector, Vimy, France. On April 16, 1917, the 18th Bn. War Diary does not mention taking in any reinforcements but it does relate taking “48 o.rs.” as reinforcements on the 17th.
May 16, 1917	To No. 4. C.F.A.	A flair up of otitis media sends Private Phillips back to the field ambulance.
May 24, 1917	Rejoins 18th Battalion.
August 16, 1917	Killed in Action	Killed in action during the Battle of Hill 70, circumstances unknown. He has no known grave and is memorialized on the Vimy Memorial

War Diary entry describing the actions on the 16th of August, the day Private Phillips perished.