| Born |
July 9, 1897
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| Died |
October 22, 1918, Age 21
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| Force |
Air Force
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| Division |
43rd Wing, Royal Air Force
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| Home Address |
19-23 Melinda Street
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Philip Williams was born in Toronto and attended both Upper Canada College and Saint Clement’s School before entering UTS in 1910. He enlisted in November 1915 and went overseas as Signalling Officer with the 124th Battallion. He arrived in France in March 1917, serving at the front for nine months and seeing action at Vimy and at Passchendaele. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, training in England as an observer and returning to Canada in April 1918 to undertake his pilot’s course. He was nearing the end of his training at Armour Heights when he fell ill with pneumonia and succumbed less than a week later. He is one of the nine UTS boys who fell in service to be buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and is commemorated on the Memorial Tablet of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church, along with his fellow UTS alumni Allan Denovan, Edward Booth, and Paul Pettit. “And us they trusted. We the task inherit/The unfinished task for which their lives were spent/But leaving us a portion of their spirit/They gave their witness and they died content.”
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