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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
Greater love hath no man than this
that a man lay down his life for his
friends
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
39
El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
Second World War
Major
3rd King's Own Hussars 7th Armoured Division
Known as Phil. This was the Desert Rats
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