Roy Cecil Phillipps, MC & Bar, DFC was an Australian fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action on 12 June 1918. A grazier between the wars, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year.
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Second Lieutenant Phillipps serving with the 28th Battalion, Giza, 1915
Captain Phillipps in his S.E.5 fighter, January 1918
Major Phillipps with his daughter Helen in England, c. 1918
General Sir William Birdwood (fifth from left) with (left to right behind Birdwood) Major Phillipps, Captain Les Holden (in flying suit), Lt Col. Oswald Watt, Lt Col. Horace Clowes Brinsmead and Major R. S. Brown at Aston Down airfield, March 1919Awards 2
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Lived 1892 to 1941 · aged 49
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