Name
Philip Sydney Slicer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Garrison Artillery
319th Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRIE BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. C. 5.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 29 Apr 1897 in Bingley, Yorkshire son of Walter and Kate Slicer later of 29 Bradford Road, Shipley, Yorkshire. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1907-14 and obtained a scholarship to study at Brasenose College, Oxford but the war intervened.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant R.G.A. in Aug 1916, he was wounded in Sep 1918 and died of his wounds in a casualty clearing station in Brie.
Additional Information
Brother of 2nd Lieutenant Walter Gordon Slicer who was killed in action on 13 Apr 1918 and is also commemorated on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
