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Military service
Service number:
772256
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
March 19, 1897
Death:
April 9, 1917
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Son of John Phillipson, formerly of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Norman Phillipson
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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Norman Phillipson was born in Etherly, County Durham, England on 19 Mar 1897. He arrived with his parents, John and Beatrice, from England in Apr 1913 at age 15 and became a promising local athlete who played for the Brantford Alert Baseball team. He volunteered for active overseas duty in Brantford, Ontario in November 1915. Shortly after shipping out to England he saw action on the Western Front (France) with the 1st Battalion of the 1st Division C.E.F. He was killed on 9 April 1917, the first day of the attack at Vimy Ridge. His burial was reported being 2 1/2 miles NW of Arras but could not be found by Graves Registration Officers. To this day his burial site remains unknown but his name is engraved on the Vimy Memorial near the Town of Vimy.
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Phillipson
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Phillipson
Digital gallery of
Private Norman Phillipson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 309 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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