4 July 2010

226175 Capt Philip L Tilley, RAC

226175 Captain Philip Lewis Tilley of the Royal Armoured Corps, died on the 4th July 1945. He was born in Somerset and was living in Wiltshire when he enlisted. He originally joined the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and was attached to the Headquarters of XXXIII Corps, RAC at the time of his death. Philip Tilley was 33 years old and the son of Arthur Herbert and Edith Anna Tilley. He is buried in Rangoon War Cemetery in Burma.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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