Photo: Brian Chandler
J.W. Phillips
Durham Light Infantry
23rd September 1918, age 20.
John William was born at Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne; the son of Edward and Mary Ann, 51 Armstrong Road, Benwell, Newcastle.
He enlisted with the 3rd Battalion at Newcastle on 28th June 1918 and died in Sunderland War Hospital from Dysentery.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson
John William Phillips is remembered in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 259