Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chaplain E. S. Phillips, Royal Navy, who was present in H.M.S. Inflexible as Chaplain during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and at the Battle of Jutland in 1916

1914-15 Star (Chapn. E. S. Phillips. M.A., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Chapn. E. S. Phillips. R.N.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Ernest Spencer Phillips was born on 5 March 1869, at The Rectory, Ickleford, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the son of the Reverend Spencer William Phillips, the Rector of Ickleford, and his wife Emily. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and taking Holy Orders was Ordained Deanon in 1893, and Priest in 1894. He served as Curate at Borden, Kent, 1893-96; South Norwood, 1896-97; and at St. Albans Abbey, 1898. He became a Naval Chaplain with seniority 10 October 1903, serving in H.M.S. Centurion, 1903-05; H.M.S. Canopus, 1905-07; H.M.S. Hermione, 1907-09; H.M.S. Topaz, 1909-11; H.M.S. Aboukir, 1911; H.M.S. Hampshire, 1911-12; H.M.S. Inflexible, 1912-16; H.M.S. Vernon, 1916-17; R.N. Air Station, 1917-18; and H.M.S. Dolphin, to 1923. He died at Brading Avenue, Fareham, Hampshire on 19 May 1950.

Sold with copied research including a group photographic image from the recipient’s undergraduate days.