Lieutenant Philip Clarence WILLIAMS (1913)

10th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
Born 9 May 1894 in Brighton, East Sussex
Killed in action 10 August 1915, aged 21
Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Philip Williams was the second son of Harry Montague Williams and Harriette, née Baker, of Lee House, Dyke Rd, Brighton.

He was educated at Brighton College, where he played in the cricket XI in 1912 & 1913 and was sergeant in the Officer Training Corps, and matriculated at Merton in 1913.

He enlisted on 1 September 1914, was appointed Second Lieutenant in October of that year, and made a Lieutenant in June 1915.

He was killed in action on the slopes of Chunuk Bair, on 10 August 1915, five days after the Hampshires had arrived in Gallipoli.