Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Private J. Phillips, 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (16890 Pte. J. Phillips. 1/R.W. Fus.); 1914-15 Star (16890 Pte. J. Phillips. R.W. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (16890 Pte. J. Phillips. R.W. Fus.) a couple of heavy edge knocks, contact marks, polished, good fine and better (4) £280-£340

M.M. London Gazette 9 July 1917.

Jabez Phillips was born at Neath in 1893, and was a resident of Briton Ferry, Glamorgan. In the 1911 Census he is noted as a Tin plate worker, residing at Lowther Street, Briton Ferry. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for service with 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and landed with them in France on 25 May 1915. He was twice wounded, suffering a broken arm at the Battle of Loos in September 1915. On 14 May 1917 he distinguished himself at Bullecourt by single handedly silencing a machine gun that was causing numerous casualties in the Battalion. He later received a gun shot wound to his right foot in March 1918. He was demobilised in May 1919, returning to Briton Ferry, and died in 1967.