Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30122, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30122/supplements/5703. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Temporary Lieutenant and Adjutant Robert Edwin Phillips, 13th Battalion, attached 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. On 25th January 1917 near Kut, Mesopotamia, after his Commanding Officer had been mortally wounded in leading a counter-attack, Lieutenant Phillips went out under the most intense fire to his assistance, and eventually, with the help of a comrade, succeeded in bringing him back to our lines. Lieutenant Phillips had in the first instance tried to get a telephone wire across the open following the battalion in their counter-attack. This was impossible when the Signallers were killed. His Commanding Officer lay wounded in the open, and as the counter-attack had succeeded, he turned all his energies on getting him in. He showed sustained courage in its very highest form, and throughout he had but little chance of ever getting back alive. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30233/supplements/8332. GAZETTE ISSUE 30233, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, The Secretary of State for War has received the following list of names of persons, warrant and non-commissioned persons and men, ladies and civilians, whose services have been brought to notice by Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, K.C.B. Commander in Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, as deserving of special mention. LÉGION D'HONNEUR,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30309/supplements/9983. GAZETTE ISSUE 30309, LÉGION D'HONNEUR Croix de Chevalier, The President of the French Republic has presented the award in recognition for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign. His Majesty the KING has given unrestricted permission in all cases to wear the Decoration.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30122, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30122/supplements/5703. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Temporary Lieutenant and Adjutant Robert Edwin Phillips, 13th Battalion, attached 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. On 25th January 1917 near Kut, Mesopotamia, after his Commanding Officer had been mortally wounded in leading a counter-attack, Lieutenant Phillips went out under the most intense fire to his assistance, and eventually, with the help of a comrade, succeeded in bringing him back to our lines. Lieutenant Phillips had in the first instance tried to get a telephone wire across the open following the battalion in their counter-attack. This was impossible when the Signallers were killed. His Commanding Officer lay wounded in the open, and as the counter-attack had succeeded, he turned all his energies on getting him in. He showed sustained courage in its very highest form, and throughout he had but little chance of ever getting back alive. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30233/supplements/8332. GAZETTE ISSUE 30233, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, The Secretary of State for War has received the following list of names of persons, warrant and non-commissioned persons and men, ladies and civilians, whose services have been brought to notice by Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, K.C.B. Commander in Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, as deserving of special mention. LÉGION D'HONNEUR,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30309/supplements/9983. GAZETTE ISSUE 30309, LÉGION D'HONNEUR Croix de Chevalier, The President of the French Republic has presented the award in recognition for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign. His Majesty the KING has given unrestricted permission in all cases to wear the Decoration.