WW1 Pair & Plaque Pte Phillips KIA 26/8/1914 2nd Lancashire Fusliers

British War & Victory Medals named 7984 PTE J PHILLIPS LAN FUS and Memorial Plaque named JAMES PHILLPS. Missing 1914 Star.

James Phillips was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, and attested for the Lancashire Fusiliers at Bury, Lancashire. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action during the first month of hostilities, on 26 August 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.

James was one of 402 NCOs and soldiers who did not answer the days roll call after the Germans Attack. Later 143 would rejoin the regiment leaving 259 as Killed, Wounded or Missing.