Robert Pickering Phipps

  Notes:

Got second name from finding birth, just 'P' on '01 census.

1901 Census (age 4) living at 5 High Street, Towcester, Northants with parents, 2 siblings and 3 servants.

http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/wulfsww1/obits/phipps_rp.htm
He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School and "ROBERT PICKERING PHIPPS, Captain, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, was the eldest son of Mr R P Phipps of the Hollies, Tettenhall. He came to the school in May 1910 and left in July 1914. He had been a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C and answered the first note of the trumpet call for war. He was soon granted a commission, trained, and sent to France, and there proved his capacity to such an extent that, after the heavy losses at the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, he was made temporary Captain and Adjutant. With little remission he was engaged in the subsequent operations of the British Forces up to the very recent capture of Beaumont Hamel. Here his battalion had to advance against a position of extraordinary difficulty and it suffered very heavily. Phipps was wounded in the wrist early in the action but insisted on advancing. “The rest remaineth unrevealed.” He was not yet 20 years of age. "


St Michael & All Angels Church War Memorial, Tettenhall ;
PHIPPS ROBERT PICKERING Captain
"A" Coy. 2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in Action between 13/11/1916 and 15/11/1916 Age:19
Son of Richard Percy and Edith Louisa Phipps of Stockwell End House Tettenhall.
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. C. 11.
Cemetery:SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2