I am back again after a long time and have completely forgotten how to manoeuvre my way around the site - apologies if I post wrongly. Anyhow I am researching Arnhem and looking for a Patrick Mannix Phillips who was with the 1st Battalion Parachute Reg and a POW. I know very little more than this at present. Where do I start please?
P M Phillips in the UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Name: P M Phillips Rank: Private Army Number: 6462931 Regiment: Army Catering Corps POW Number: 117509 Camp Type: Stalag Camp Number: XI-B Camp Location: Fallingbostel, Lower Saxony Record Office: Army Air Corps and Army Catering Corps Record Office, Drill Hall, East Claremont St., Edinburgh 9 Record Office Number: 41 Apply for his service records - Request records of deceased service personnel - GOV.UK Search this site Search - https://paradata.org.uk/ Good hunting TD
Above found at findmypast (FMP). Can't find where he was born. Checked the Scottish and Irish sites and nothing about birth at FMP. Ordering the death certificate might help tracing birth details, hopefully from info via his parents details.
Patrick Mannix Phillips in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Patrick Mannix Phillips Birth Date: 21 Apr 1921 Date of Registration: Oct 1988 Age at Death: 67 Registration district: Camden Inferred County: London Volume: 14 Page: 1953 Use these details to obtain a copy of his death cert from Camden Registrars Office then apply for his service records (details in post 2) TD
Barb - you can type a post underneath a "quoted piece" - no need to make 2 postings, might save you time and effort TD
Patrick Mannix Philips was attached to the 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment and was taken prisoner on 21st September.
Patsy Mannix Phillips was a fruit and veg Costermonger from Covent Garden Due to working in a food market he was put in the catering Corp Sent to Arnhem with the 2nd Battalion his stove was soon replaced with a rifle and he helped to defend the bridge He was shot by a German Machinegunner with the hiccups. Two bullets in his legs,he was recovered from open ground and placed in one of the cellars housing both British and German wounded. As more wounded came in they was instructed to leave any valuable items by the door so that any troops,either British or German that came in didn’t have to rifle them for goods. The building changed hands more than once Patsy worked Berwick St Market until his death He had a slight limp from his war wound The reason he said the German that shot him had the hiccups was because the two lads running with him to another building were both hit in the chest and died British black humour in adversity Lawrence Phillips
Hello, I am Patsy Phillip's eldest Granddaughter. I've just come across this post! Is anyone related to him?
Hi Jamie Someone in the family has his records The POW records show him being captured on the last day in Arnhem