Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second World War civil C.B. pair awarded to Sidney Hill Phillips, a senior Civil Servant at the Admiralty

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Civil) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, good very fine (2) £320-360

C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1941.

Sidney Hill Phillips was born in April 1882, the son of Godfrey Phillips, J.P., of Risca, Monmouthsire. Educated at Cheltenham College and St. John’s College, Cambridge, young Sidney embarked upon a career as a civil servant in 1904, when he was appointed a First Class Clerk in the Department of the Secretary of the Admiralty. Gaining steady advancement - Principal Clerk in 1918 and Principal Assistant Secretary in 1936 - he was awarded the Coronation Medal and created a C.B. (Civil), which distinction he received at a Buckingham Palace investiture held on 18 February 1941. Phillips retired in the following year, settling at Wadebridge in Cornwall, and died in February 1962.

Sold with the recipient’s original C.B. warrant and Buckingham Place certificate for his Coronation Medal.