GB 0099 KCLMA Phillips - PHILLIPS, Maj Gen Charles George (1889-1982)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Phillips Created 1916-1918, 1935, 1940-1941, 1976 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born in 1889; educated at Repton School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, West Yorkshire Regt, 1909; Lt, 1910; seconded for service with Merehan Somali Expedition, Jubaland, Kenya, 1912-1914; served in East Africa, 1914-1918; Capt, 1914; commanded 3rd Bn, 2 King's African Rifles, 1916-1918, and Philcol Column, Portuguese East Africa, 1918; commanded 1 Bn, 1 King's African Rifles and Officer Commanding Troops in Nyasaland, 1919-1923; Maj, 1924; Lt Col, 1933; commanded 1 Bn, West Yorkshire Regt, 1933-1937; Commander, 146 (1 West Riding) Infantry Bde, Territorial Army, 1938; Commander, British Troops, Namsos, Norway, 1940, Northern Iceland, 1940-1941; Gambia, 1942-1943, and Sierre Leone, 1943-1944; Maj Gen, 1942; retired pay, 1944; died in 1982.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.

Papers relating to his service in East Africa, 1912-1923, and Iceland, 1940-1941, dated 1916-1918, 1935, 1940-1941 and 1976, notably including maps of German East Africa (Tanzania), 1916, and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), 1918; field service correspondence book, including war diary entries, covering his service with 3 Bn 2 King's African Rifles, East Africa, 1917; letter to the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, giving an account of action fought near Lindi, German East Africa on 11 Jun 1917, written in 1935; letter to Phillips from Harry Curtis, giving instructions relating to operations in Iceland, 1940; diary covering his service in Iceland, 1940-1941.

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Decorations: CB, DSO, MC
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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.

Papers relating to his service in East Africa, 1912-1923, and Iceland, 1940-1941, dated 1916-1918, 1935, 1940-1941 and 1976, notably including maps of German East Africa (Tanzania), 1916, and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), 1918; field service correspondence book, including war diary entries, covering his service with 3 Bn 2 King's African Rifles, East Africa, 1917; letter to the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, giving an account of action fought near Lindi, German East Africa on 11 Jun 1917, written in 1935; letter to Phillips from Harry Curtis, giving instructions relating to operations in Iceland, 1940; diary covering his service in Iceland, 1940-1941.

1 file

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

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English

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

Decorations: CB, DSO, MC

Decorations: CB, DSO, MC

• Engels