LEST WE FORGET
Lieutenant Edgar Thomas PHILIP
From Australia serving in the Royal Flying Corps
Service No: Not Assigned
Unit: 9th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, based at Proven, Belgium
Died: Air Operations, Belgium, 18 June 1917, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Strand Military Cemetery, Hainault, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Katherine Philip, of “Glencairn,” Nagambie, Victoria, Australia, and the late John Philip
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
During a photographic reconnaissance mission on 18 June 1917, Second Lieutenant Philip (Observer) and Second Lieutenant Bevis Heppel Bean RFC (Pilot), flying RE8 aircraft A3255, went missing.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives UK RAF Casualty Book AIR 1/968 page 49, 223983