Walter John Phillips

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Wiltshire Times	TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...	20th April 1912
BBC News	'JACK PHILLIPS' - THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANIC John George Phillips who was nicknamed 'Jack' gained posthumous fame as the man who tried to save the Titanic and all those on board....	15th July 2010
	VAN BILLIARD MONUMENT, SIDE VIEW Grave...
Ilfracombe Gazette	BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT PHILLIPS-January 26th, at 85 High Street, Ilfracombe, the wife of Mr. E. R. Phillips, of a daughter....	27th January 1891
Daily Home News	DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ...	22nd April 1912
	MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
Lectures pour Tous	JOHN GEORGE PHILLIPS As imagined by 'Lectures pour tous', July 1912...	1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...	April 1912
thisisnorthdevon.co.uk	REMEMBERING THE LOCAL PASSENGERS ON THE DOOMED SHIP SEVERAL North Devon residents were aboard the Titanic when the ship made its ill-fated maiden voyage 100 years ago. Edward Parsons of 2 St John's Cottages in Bishops Tawton was employed as the ship's chief storekeeper. Prior to the ship's maiden voyage, Mr Parsons moved to Southampton with his wife and five children. Like many crew members, Parsons went down with his ship. He was aged 35 and his body was never recovered. A father and daughter from Ilfracombe, Escott Robert Phillips and Alice Frances Louisa Phillips, were also aboard the doomed ship....	8th March 2012
Brooklyn Daily Times	ON WAY TO REUNION; IS LOST ON TITANIC Pittsburgh Man Hears Brother Is Lost, but Girl Saved --- PITTSBURGH, April 17---Looking forward to a reunion after years of separation, William Phillips, of New Brighton, was stunned by the news that his brother, Robert Phillips, on his...	17th April 1912
	1901 CENSUS - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON At the 1901 census date Alice Frances Phillips, aged 10, was at home with her parents, Escott Robert & Hannah Marie Phillips, they were living at 9 Belvedere, Ilfracombe....	31st March 1901
New York Times	BRIDE FIXING LIFEBELT ON PHILLIPS Two Marconi Men Worked to the Last...	28th April 1912
	JOHN PHILLIPS ON "FIND A GRAVE" WEB SITE
	CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS Written just a few months before he joined the Titanic...	1911
New York Times	MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...	16th April 1912
New York Times	CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS blurb...	21st April 1912
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	WALTER BELFORD Walter Belford did not appear on the Titanic's crew lists. In fact, he never was a Titanic crewman, he just told Walter Lord he was, and became famous as a "fake" Titanic survivor. At the time when this picture was published in Switzerland, in Septem...	20th September 1956
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC HERO MEMORIAL IN GODALMING TO BE RESTORED A memorial to the chief telegraphist on the Titanic is to be restored in time for the centenary of the sinking of the ship on its maiden voyage in 1912. Jack Phillips, who was born in Godalming, Surrey stayed at his post as the ship went down, sending messages to the Carpathia to rescue survivors. Phillips Memorial Park, in Godalming, is to receive £335,000 from the National Lottery for the restoration....	11th July 2011
bbc.co.uk	GODALMING MUSEUM CELEBRATES TITANIC HERO JACK PHILLIPS An exhibition honouring one of the heroes of the Titanic disaster has opened in his home town in Surrey. Jack Phillips, the chief telegraphic officer on the ship which sank in 1912, went down with the vessel. His last message was received three minutes before the Titanic disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean. Godalming Museum's exhibition, which runs until 12 May, is one of a series of events in the town commemorating the centenary of the loss of the ship....	11th March 2012
Ormskirk Advertiser	WALTER JAMES BROWN WALTER JAMES BROWN was 39 [sic] years old when he joined the crew of the Titanic as a First Class Saloon Steward. Before joining The White Star Lines, Brown worked for his older brother, William, in his grocery store on Moor Street in Ormskirk. Walte...	5th February 1998
Boston Globe	PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...	16th April 1912
Godalming and District News	POST OFFICE MEMORIAL At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...	4th May 1912
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
New York Times	PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...	11th October 1914
	KATE PHILLIPS AND HER DAUGHTER ELLEN
	WALTER LORD'S GRAVE STONE
Worcester City Directory	WALTER C. PORTER'S LAST MANUF. COMPANY S.Porter Directory Ad 1907...	1909
	JACK PHILLIPS Pictured (left) with a colleague aboard the Adriatic...
	CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS From an unidentified French paper...	1912
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND Number 542. Phillips, Parents. Grant £60. Two sisters, grants £20 each....	March 1913
The Toronto World	WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...	17th April 1912
Cedar Rapids Gazette	MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS DIED IN CALIFORNIA Page 1A Mrs. Walter D. Douglas died Saturday afternoon at her home in Pasadena, Calif., according to word received by Mrs. George B. Dutton, 2224 Country Club Parkway SE. Funeral services will be announced later. Mrs. Doug...	22nd April 1945
The San Francisco Call	WALTER M. CLARK A PASSENGER Walter M. Clark of Los Angeles, son of J. Ross Clark, the railroad official of that city and a well known figure in San Francisco as well as in the southern metropolis, was a passenger on the Titanic and supposedly is among those lost. ...	16th April 1912
Baltimore Sun	BACKSTORY AUTHORS LECTURE STUDENTS ON AUTHOR WALTER LORD Two New York authors Jenny Lawrence and John Maxtone-Graham shook off the rain and chill of a dreary fall Thursday in Baltimore and quietly stood in the well of the Gilman School auditorium waiting for 255 sixth- seventh- and eighth-grade students to take their seats....	10th November 2010
	WALTER C. PORTER GRAVESITE Walter C. Porter's Family Gravesite...
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
San Francisco Examiner	DR. DODGE'S FATE IS STILL IN DOUBT Page 16, column 8 "Fairly satisfactory," was the announcement made yesterday by Dr. John Gallwey touching the condition of Dr. Washington Dodge, who attempted last Saturday to end his life by shooting himself in the head. D...	24th June 1919
The Times	LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES COMMITTEE, 1888 MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1888.-The first meeting of the comnmittee appointed under the provisions of the "Merchant Shippng (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888," took place at the Board of Trade...	19th November 1888
	WALTER DOUGLAS CROSSING THE ATLANTIC Walter Douglas (in hat) crossing the Atlantic c.1910....	1910
	REGINALD GEORGE SMITH & HUGH WALTER MCELROY It is quite likely that Hugh Walter McElroy (purser) and Reginald George Smith (saloon steward) were acquainted as they both had brothers who were Roman Catholic Priests. Father Richard McElroy and Father Aloysius Smith both served to...
	1881 CENSUS, WEYMOUTH, DORSET Reginald George Smith was born in Weymouth, Dorset in the summer of 1879. At the time of the 1881 census he was living with his mother and brothers at 5 Salisbury Terrace, Melcombe Regis, a suburb of Weymouth. His moth...	31st March 1881
Salt Lake Tribune	WESTERN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC HERE Page 4 Mrs. Walter Clark, Whose Husband Went Down to Death, Prostrated INTERVIEWERS DENIED W. A. Clark, Jr., Son of Former Senator, Will Escort Her to Los Angeles William A. Clark, Jr., ...	24th April 1912
	WALTER C. PORTER
	WALTER C. PORTER Walter C. Porter...
	WALTER C. PORTER HEADSTONE Walter C. Porter's headstone...
	QUARTERMASTER WALTER WYNN : PHOTOGRAPH
	JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN This drawing by G. Dutriac was published by Hachette in the first French book about the Titanic, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic' in 1913. The authors of the novel were J. Jacquin and A. Fabre....	1913
	TITANIC SURVIVOR SINKS IN DEBT Millvina Dean is the last living survivor of the Titanic and, at 96 years old, she has been forced to auction off her valuable Titanic souvenirs to pay for her nursing home. Mark Phillips reports. ...
Exeter Flying Post	DEVONIANS ON BOARD Walter Jarvis, 37, of Dartmouth, fireman....	20th April 1912
	WALTER BISHOP INFORMATION (Death Notice - Southern Daily Echo 30th April 1912, and Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912) Bishop, Walter Alexander Under Castleman, Edward ...

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