Sergeant-Major George Phillips, ca.1943
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photograph showing George Phillips dressed in uniform.
- Notes
- George Phillips was born in Prince Edward County, Ontario on November 7, 1916 and was educated at Brock Street Public School in Whitby. He worked for some years at General Motors in Oshawa. A keen sportsman, he played baseball in Oshawa and was a member of many hockey teams in Whitby including the Whitby Intermediates which won the Provincial Intermediate Championship C. 1939. He enlisted in the Spring of 1940 and went overseas the following August. He was trained as a gunner-bombardier in Petawawa and overseas. He received a promotion to the non-commissioned rank of sergeant in January of 1943 in his unit, the Four Canadian Field Regiment, Second Field Battery in the Royal Canadian Artillery. He was killed in action in Belgium on October 6, 1944.
- Date of Original
- 1943
- Dimensions
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Width: 10 in
Height: 8 in
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 29-003-078
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.88342 Longitude: -78.93287
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- Donor
- Madeline Thomas
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Sergeant-Major George Phillips, C. 1943, Photographer Unknown, Whitby Archives 29-003-078.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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