Phillpotts, Fitzroy Charles

PHILLPOTTS,

FITZROY CHARLES

BORN 30 MAY 1894

Fitzroy Charles Phillpotts

was born on 30 May 1894 in Polesworth, Warwickshire son of Revd Ernest Alfred Phillpotts (b 1869 in Jamaica, West Indies), a Clerk in Holy Orders and Janet Lucy Phillpotts (b 1869 in Hampshire). Fitzroy had a brother Alfred Reginald (b 1895 in Clevedon, Somerset) and a sister Elinor Sibyl (b 1900 in Bristol).

Fitzroy entered the school on 17 September 1903, aged 9, leaving shortly after in December 1903. At that time the family lived at 30 Archfield Road, Cotham.

Fitzroy attended Trinity College Oxford from 1912 and was part of the University OTC. He served as a Lieutenant with the Gloucestershire Regiment, 7th Battalion. He died on 9 August 1915, aged 21, from wounds received at Chunuk Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula.

He is remembered on the Helles Memorial, Turkey. His parents erected a plaque to commemorate Fitzroy. It is now located in Holy Trinity Church Stapleton, Bristol. The inscription reads:

‘To the glory of God and in ever loving memory of Fitzroy Charles Phillpotts, Lieutenant 7th Battalion Gloucester

Regt. who died the 9 August 1915 aged 21 years from wounds received the day before in the attack at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli Peninsula. He was a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford and formerly Head (Boy) of Clifton College. This Reredos has been erected by his parents, brother and sister’.

Alfred Reginald also served as a Lieutenant with the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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