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Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« on: Monday 09 September 19 17:11 BST (UK) »
Commonwealth War Graves Commission are looking for relatives of Sapper Percival John Phillips of the Royal Engineers - W/R 206718 - Percival died 26/9/1918.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126334954

The Private Memorial marking the grave of Sapper Percival John Phillips no longer provides adequate commemoration. The commission is in the process of erecting a headstone to mark his grave.

UK Army Register soldiers effects - Sapper Percival John Phillips - Connaught Hosp Aldershot - 26 September 1918 -    RE ROTD - Regimental Number:   WR/206718
sole leg - Rose Blakeman - 13/8/1919

Aunt Mrs Edwards Highmead - Cly.nr. Cardiff

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2760014/phillips,-percival-john/#&gid=null&pid=2

https://astreetnearyou.org/person/2760014/Sapper-Percival-John-Phillips

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2760014/phillips,-percival-john/

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #1 on: Monday 09 September 19 17:12 BST (UK) »


1911 census - free index - bristol - Percival with parents and siblings.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSDN-GLW

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #2 on: Monday 09 September 19 17:13 BST (UK) »


1901 census Bedminster Bristol.

RG13 Piece 2361 Folio 166 Page 29

Charles H Phillips 35
Margaret A Phillips 26
Percival J Phillips 7
Chas W Phillips   3
Gilbert N Phillips 2
Fanny Phillips   17 Days

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #3 on: Monday 09 September 19 17:21 BST (UK) »
Parents Charles Hawkins Phillips married Margaret Abigail Williams - 1893 - Cardiff - 11a 303

Charles H Phillips died quarter 3 1946 - Bathavon Somerset - 7 c 63

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #4 on: Monday 09 September 19 17:29 BST (UK) »
Sadly  :'( Brother Charles Wallace Phillips is listed on UK Commonwealth War Graves - died 21 Mar 1918 -
Cemetery:   Pozieres Memorial France - Machine Gun Corpos Infantry - 141052 -  Father - Charles Hawkins Phillips Mother Margaret Abigal Phillips. 3 Beaufort Street Bristol.

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #5 on: Monday 09 September 19 17:55 BST (UK) »
There is an aunt mentioned in the cemetery details on the CWGC website, but I can’t make out her address.
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #6 on: Monday 09 September 19 18:00 BST (UK) »
Thanks - think I have added that in the orig post along with the name of Rose Blakeman who was mentioned on Register of soldiers effects.

Brother Gilbert Nelson Phillips - marrried Fanny Maud Beatrice Forrister 10 April 1923 Bedminster St Paul Somerset -

Gilbert Nelson Phillips died 18 January 1966 - probate 1 April 1966

Fanny M B Phillips died quarter 3 1961 - Liverpool South Lancashire - 10 d 416

Probate 1 April 1966 to daughter born in 1929 - Veronica Mary - married name possibly White

4 births listed in Bristol - Gilbert W Phillips - 1925 -  possible death quarter 2 1959 - Bristol - 7b 185

A death of Veronica Mary White - 10 May 1929 - Stafford Staffordshire February 1993 - A22E
District and Subdistrict 7351A - Entry Number 279
Spouse Stewart george White died Cannock Chase - June 1979 - 3- - 584


Possible 5 sons and a daughter according to an ancestry tree - have sent a message to see if they can help.


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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #7 on: Monday 09 September 19 18:05 BST (UK) »
Gosh, you are super quick Sandra. I had just found the marriage for Gilbert and his death.
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....

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Re: Percival John Phillips.......Penarth Cemetery.
« Reply #8 on: Monday 09 September 19 18:07 BST (UK) »
He - Gilbert - was a merchant seaman, photo on his record on FindMyPast
CARDIFF:Lord,Griffiths,Barry,Cope,Mahoney ~ PEMBROKESHIRE:Griffiths,Rees,Owen,Thomas ~ ESSEX:Lord,Foreman,Hatch ~ SOMERSET:Lord,Cox,Hockey,Linham,Bryant ~ STAFFORDSHIRE:Cope,Elks,Hackney,Gallimore,Davenport ~ SUFFOLK:Lord,Lockwood,Hatch,Rix,Foreman ~ IRELAND:Barry,Meany,Cummins,Grogan ~
PONTYPRIDD:Leigh,Brooks,Adams,Davies,Thomas ~ KENT:Leigh ~ CHESHIRE:Adams,Tudor,Illidge ~ DENBIGHSHIRE:Edwards,Bolas ~BRECON:Leigh,Thomas,Davies ~SOMERSET:Adams,Keitch,Bridge ~ABERGAVENNY:Minton ~ MERTHYR:.....
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