Roy Phillipps
Roy Cecil Phillipps, MC & Bar, DFC was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action on 12 June 1918. He was awarded two Military Crosses and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions. A grazier between the wars, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year.
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Roy Cecil Phillipps, MC & Bar, DFC was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action on 12 June 1918. He was awarded two Military Crosses and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions. A grazier between the wars, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year. He married Ellen Robinson, daughter of Western Australia’s Attorney-General, at St Mary Abbotsington, London, on 8 September 1939. He died in a crash-landing at Archerfield, Queensland, on 2 November 1941. He is buried at St Vincent’s Anglican Church in Perth, Western Australia, where he was born in 1892. He served in the Australian Imperial Force as an infantryman in 1915 and 1916. Wounded twice in 1916, he transferred to the Australian Flying Corps and was accepted for pilot training in May 1917. In 1919, he left the AFC and was managing a rural property when he enlisted in the RAAF soon after the outbreak of WW2.
He later became a grazier and was married to Ellen Robinson. He had a daughter, Ellen, who died of a heart attack in 1973 at the age of 46. He also had a son, Cecil, who was a successful businessman and was a well-known businessman in Perth and Adelaide, Australia. He passed away in 1994 at age 89. He left behind a wife and two children, Cecil and Ellen, and a daughter-in-law, Anne, who later died of lung cancer in 1999 at age 90. He never remarried and died in 2011 at his home in Queensland. He leaves behind a son and two daughters, Cecil Jr. and Anne, both of whom are still living in Perth. He has also a step-grandson, Cecil J. J. Phillipp, who is also a well known Australian author and author of a book about the Australian War of 1914-1918, “The Australian Soldier: A Life in War and Remembrance”, published by The Australian War Museum, Sydney, in 2013. He will also be buried in Perth in a family grave, along with his wife, Cecil.
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