Dale, Philip King

Philip was born on 27 October 1887 at Loughton, Essex, the second son of Charles and Fanny (nee Saunders).

Philip enlisted on 9 May 1916 at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire with the Royal Field Artillery, and due to the enormous number of new recruits was placed in the 4^th Reserve Brigade, Regimental Number 132321, and then to the main body of the Royal Field Artillery, Regimental Number 528360.  He transferred to the Labour Corps Employment Brigade, Regimental Number 220360 on 15 September 1917, and to the 596^th Home Service Labour Corps Company on 30 September 1919.  Labour Corps Area Employment Companies were formed in 1917 for salvage work, absorbing the Divisional Salvage Companies.  Philip survived the War and was discharged in January 1919.

He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

He is commemorated on the St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour.

He married Agnes Cameron in the 1^st quarter 1913 at St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge. His military records show Agnes’s address at the time of their marriage as Bluegates, Ashwell, Hertfordshire. They had one daughter, Nina Agnes Cameron, born 11 April 1914.

On Philip’s military records (1916) he was recorded as a butler at the Red Lion Hotel, High Wickham, Buckinghamshire.

Philip and Agnes lived in Reigate, Surrey in the 1920s, moving to Hendon, Barnet, Middlesex in 1926. Agnes died in 1934.

The 1939 census shows Philip, the licensee caterer, and his daughter Nina, the manageress, of the Wheatsheaf public house in Watford, Hertfordshire.

Philip died on 3 December 1967 at Burgh Heath, Surrey.