Blessé au combat
Pte P. Phillips
Service No.
Company:
2764234
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
The Black Watch
Date Wounded:
Sunday, 09 July 1944
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Possibly wounded by enemy fire whilst attacking/on patrol in Caen
Joined up date
Patrick 'Paddy' Phillips wounds are mentioned in the IWM interview with 1st KOSB veteran, William Snell.
"I remember Paddy Phillips jumping and running, and this officer what was with him. Paddy got hit in the back with a bullet. We went into a cellar, there was about four of us, and we holed up there all night, and things quietened down.
‘Just before daylight we made our way back to Company HQ. And Paddy, he didn’t know he’d been hit. He said that he felt sick, and they found a bullet hole in his back. The bullet had lodged in his stomach."
*Quote supplied by author, Geraint Jones in his book, Voices of Victory
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