Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eight: Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Phillips, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy, who served at Jutland and became one of the foremost torpedo specialists in the Second World War

1914-15 STAR TRIO (Lieut., R.N.); DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937; Russia, ORDER OF ST. ANNE, 3rd class breast badge in gold and enamels, with crossed swords, by Edouard, one sword hilt a replacement, enamel lost on one reverse arm, otherwise very fine or better (8)

Order of St. Anne, 3rd class (with swords), London Gazette, 5 June, 1917, 'for distinguished service rendered in the battle of Jutland.'

K.B.E. (Military), London Gazette, 13 June, 1946.

C.B. (Military), London Gazette, 8 June, 1944.

Henry Clarmont Phillips, son of Lieutenant-Colonel G.E. Phillips, R.E., was born on July 10, 1891, and entered the Navy with the last Britannia entry of cadets in January 1906, joining the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, direct. When the First World War broke out he was specialising in torpedoes in the Vernon, and shortly afterwards joined the battleship Duncan as torpedo lieutenant. From 1915 to 1917 he served in the Calliope, Commodore's ship in the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron in the Grand Fleet, and was present at the Battle of Jutland. During the last year of the war, and until 1920, he was on the staff of the torpedo school. From 1932 to 1935 he commanded the sloop Milford on the Africa Station, and from 1935 to 1937 the cruisers Cornwall and Suffolk on the China Station. He was then lent to the Australian Navy as Captain Superintendent of the Dockyard at Sydney, and was there during the early months of the Second World War. From 1940 to February 1942, when he was promoted to rear-admiral, he was Director of Torpedoes and Mining. He was afterwards employed on special duties in Washington and at the Air Ministry, and from 1944 to 1947 was Vice-Controller of the Navy.