Captain Philip Joseph BELLASIS (1912)

5th (Service) Battalion, King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
Born 19 April 1893 in Kensington, London
Killed in action 24 August 1916, aged 23
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated on the war memorial at Shrewsbury Cathedral.

Philip Bellasis was the youngest son of William Dalglish Bellasis and Marie Sophie Dalglish Bellasis (daughter of the Marquis de Guerry de Lauret) of Stanley, Goring, Oxfordshire.

He was educated at the Oratory School, Birmingham, and matriculated at Merton in 1912. While at Oxford he was a keen hockey player, and a member of the Officer Training Corps.

He was made a Captain in August 1915, and shortly afterwards received shrapnel wounds to his left thigh and right hand at the battle of Hooge, for which he was hospitalised at Étaples.

He had sick leave from 5 October to 5 December 1915, returning to his Battalion in April 1916.

He was killed by a shell at Delville Wood, during the Battle of the Somme, on 24 August 1916.

His body not having been found, his name is among those of 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918, on the Thiepval Memorial in France, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, who have no known grave.