Wars Last Goodbyes
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Easton Grey Church

Inscription

In loving memory of 'Phil'

Cyril Douglas Phillips

Major 3rd King's Own Hussars

Died of wounds in Egypt

20 November 1940

Aged 39 years

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Greater love hath no man than this

that a man lay down his life for his

friends

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Horses he loved & laughter & the sun

A song, wide spaces & the open air

The trust of all dumb living things he won

God's gift he knew & knowing loved to share

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Easton Grey Church

Wiltshire

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Cyril Douglas

Phillips

23rd March 1901

Ipswich, Suffolk

20th November 1940

Severely wounded in a multiple dive bomber attack on a tank column with the 11th Hussars near Sidi Barrani, Egypt and later died

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El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt

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Second World War

Major

3rd King's Own Hussars 7th Armoured Division

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Known as Phil. This was the Desert Rats

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