Leslie Gordon Phillips

Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips
Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips
	Major General Phillips in 1946.
Born	11 February 1892
Died	19 March 1966 (aged 74)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1911–1946
Rank	Major General
Service number	4552
Unit	Worcestershire Regiment; Royal Corps of Signals
Battles/wars	First World War; Second World War
Awards	KBE; CB; MC

Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips KBE CB MC (11 February 1892 – 19 March 1966) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War.

Military career[edit]

Born on 11 February 1892, Leslie Gordon Phillips was educated at Bedford School and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his first commission in the Worcestershire Regiment as a second lieutenant in 1911 and served in France and Belgium during the First World War. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 1920 and served in Waziristan between 1936 and 1937. Promoted to the rank of major general in 1940, he served during the Second World War and was Signal Officer in Chief, Home Forces, between 1941 and 1943. He was Director of Signals at the War Office between 1943 and 1946.^[1]

Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1943, and as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. He retired from the British Army in 1946 and died on 19 March 1966.^[2]

^ Who's Who
^ R.F.H. Nalder, The Royal Corps of Signals: a history of its antecedents and development (circa 1800-1955), London, 1958

Smart, Nick (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. Barnesley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 1844150496.