Name
Philip Herbert Surridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
890755
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Philip Surridge was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Abbots Langley in Spring 1919. He was initially identified from the Absent Voter Records and was not recorded elsewhere in the Abbots Langley Parish records. In the Absent Voter Records Philip was listed serving with the Royal Field Artillery and his address was given at Primrose Hill, Abbots Langley.
Although not recorded in the Abbots Langley records, Philip was listed in the Kings Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour, and may have had more association with Kings Langley village which was in close proximity to Primrose Hill.
Philip was born on 14th July 1896 at Abbots Langley. He was one of five children born to Reuben and Lois Surridge. Philip’s brother Thomas also served in the Great War. In the 1901 Census the family was noted living at Primrose Hill, Abbots Langley, Reuben worked as a Hay Dealer. By the time of the 1911 Census the family still lived at Primrose Hill. Reuben worked as a General Carter, and Philip was employed Stamping Envelopes, probably at one of John Dickinson’s Paper Mills.
It is not known when Philip enlisted however when the Kings Langley Parish Magazine began to regularly print a Roll of Honour in November 1915, he was recorded serving with the Royal Field Artillery. Philip’s Medal Roll indicated that he had joined from the Territorial Force Royal Field Artillery, and may have been serving in a part-time capacity before the War commenced in August 1914.
Despite Philip being recorded in the Kings Langley records, though his birth, his address and by appearing in the Abbots Langley Absent Voter Records he is also commemorated as an Abbots Langley man.
Philip Surridge, and his brother Thomas both survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
