Name
Matthew Phillipson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/12/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24778
Grenadier Guards
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 2
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
His home was 84, Ickleford Road, Hitchin. Before joining the army, he was on the engineering staff of the Great Central Railway in London. He was also in the choir at St. Mary's Church for nine years. He was born in Retford in Nottinghamshire and enlisted al Hitchin in November 1915.
Wartime Service
Matthew went to the 4th Battalion of the Grenadiers with the Number 24778 and was posted to France in September 1916. The Battalion was part of the 3rd Guards Brigade in the Guards Division of III Corps in the 3rd Army. At some time he came home suffering from trench feet but re-joined the Battalion a few months later. He was killed in action in France.
His death came during the Battle of Cambrai and he fell during a desperate action in which the Guards made a gallant stand on the 1st December 1917. Assisted by a tank brigade they had stormed over St. Quentin Ridge and during very heavy fighting entered Gonnelieu.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 2 of the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing at Louverval in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
