Name: PHILLIPS, RONALD
Initials: R
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gloucestershire Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd/4th Bn.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 19/07/1916
Service No: 201152
Additional information: Son of Henry and Elizabeth Phillips, of The Fields, Sharpness, Glos.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 60 to 64.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

This one might be a transcription error somewhere. In spite of the parents names and 1896 birth date, I still cannot manage to tie the family down.

Mel

Mel,

Name: Ronald Phillips
Birth Place: Hinton, Sharpness
Residence: Bristol
Death Date: 19 Jul 1916
Rank: Private
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Battalion: 2/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Territorial.
Number: 201152
Type of Casualty: Died
Theater of War: France

His service details match up with SDGW, but I can't find a thing on him either.

Cheers Andy.

Mel,

The closest I can get is this........ so maybe some transcription errors from one of the sites.

Name: Ronald Phillips
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1897
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Saml
Mother's Name: Lizzie
Gender: Male
Where born: Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Civil Parish: Hinton
Ecclesiastical parish: Berkeley
County/Island: Gloucestershire
Country: England
Registration district: Thornbury
Sub-registration district: Berkeley
ED, institution, or vessel: 8
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 138
Household Members:
Name Age
Saml Phillips 26
Lizzie Phillips 25
Ronald Phillips 4
Ivor C Phillips 2

Cheers Andy.

Andy

I don't think that squares up - unless the IWGC took liberties with parents' names.

Henry and Elizabeth are the ones but where are they?

Mel

1901 (Not found on Ancestry, only on FindmyPast!)
Bucketts Hill Cottage, Hinton, Berkeley, Thornbury, Glos
PHILLIPS Henry, Head, 31, Dock Gateman
PHILLIPS Bessie, Wife, 28
PHILLIPS Ronald, Son, 5
All born Berkeley

1911
HOUSEHOLD PHILLIPS HENRY M 1870 41 Thornbury Gloucestershire
HOUSEHOLD PHILLIPS ELIZABETH F 1873 38 Thornbury Gloucestershire
HOUSEHOLD PHILLIPS ETHEL F 1894 17 Thornbury Gloucestershire
HOUSEHOLD PHILLIPS RONALD M 1896 15 Thornbury Gloucestershire

Two possible birth records
Births Q3 1895 in Thornbury - PHILLIPS Ronald Henry (6a 236)
Births Q3 1896 in Thornbury - PHILLIPS Ronald (6a 218)
but the first is most likely based on age on censuses & CWGC, so his full name was Ronald Henry PHILLIPS.

Parents marriage probably: PHILLIPS Henry to PERKINS Elizabeth Sarah in Thornbury Q1 1894
Can't find his sister's birth, or where she'd got to in 1901.

Adrian

Adrian

Thanks again!

You should do this on a professional basis.

Mel