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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 229

Five: Brigadier C. W. Phillpotts, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, late Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment and Ceylon Defence Force

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, S. E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (Lt. Col. C. W. Phillpotts. R.A.O.C.), official correction to initials on this last, very fine (5)

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 April 1946 (North-West Europe).

Charles William Phillpotts was born on 2 August 1907, the son of Sergeant David William Phillpotts, who was killed in action with the Royal Field Artillery on 21 October 1914. Young Phillpotts was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment in 1931 and was seconded to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 12 May 1934. He was listed as Officer Commanding Ordnance in the Ceylon Defence Force that same year. Having seen action in North-West Europe during the Second World War, being made Lieutenant-Colonel in 1944 and adding a 'mention' for good measure, he served in South-East Asia from 28 June-6 July 1946 on a visit to HQ AFNEI and 26th Indian Division (Medal & clasp). He was awarded a further clasp for his service in Palestine attached to HQ 1st Armoured Brigade from 23 May-15 November 1947, whilst rolls are not presently available for the Malaya campaign, during which he added a third clasp to his Medal. Phillpotts retired as a Brigadier in 1958 and died in London in January 1971.

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