Biography:
Charles Phillipps was born 1 April 1866, the eldest son of Major Charles Burch Phillipps of Barham Hall, Ipswich, and Amy Florence, third daughter of the Reverend William Colville, Rector of Baylham, Suffolk.
He came to Winchester College from Rev. W.G. Wilkinson's school at Aldeburgh in September 1879 and was in B House, Moberly's. He rowed and competed in athletics and cricket for his house.
Charles left Winchester in 1883 for the Oxford Military College and then went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1884. He received his commission in the Royal Artillery in 1887 and served as gunnery instructor at Cork Harbour from 1892 to 1896. In 1904 he was appointed commandant of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.
Charles went to France in October 1916 in command of the 70th Heavy Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery and was invalided home in March 1917. He died on 10 January 1919 at Helena Hospital, Shorncliffe, from nephritis brought on by exposure and is buried in Grave M.730 of the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in Kent.
Lieutenant-Colonel Phillipps married Miss Clara Middleton Peniston on 2 June 1900.