{"id":627,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=627"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T10:07:50","slug":"phillips-elias-alexander","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/phillips-elias-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips, Elias Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Elias Alexander Phillips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Observer, 149 (East India) Squadron<br>Service number 112015<br>Died 8 June 1942<br>Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany<br>Age 32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;NATURE MIGHT STAND UP AND SAY TO ALL THE WORLD, &#8220;THIS WAS A MAN!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Elias was born on 2 February 1910 in East Ham, Essex to Sydney and Bessie n\u00e9e Marks and had an older sister Theresa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elias married Laura Liddle in 1937 in Hendon, and in 1939 they were living at 55 Sunnyfield, Hendon where Elias worked as a leather goods manufacturer with his father and Laura was a shorthand typist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elias was the observer on Stirling N6084 which departed RAF Lakenheath on the night of 8\/9th June 1942, detailed to bomb Essen, Germany. 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The aircraft crashed at Hessel, 7 kms south east of Dorsten and all the crew members were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/G, Eric Foster William Booth, 636621. <br>Pilot, Howard Leslie Davis, 1254786. <br>Flying Officer Vincent William James Mansell, RAAF, 407719 <br>F\/E, Norman Peake, 617057. <br>Obs, Elias Alexander Phillips <br>A\/G, Eric Ward, 1261399. <br>W\/Op, Tom Whittle, 1310638.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Elias-Phillips-headstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Elias-Phillips-headstone.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Elias-Phillips-headstone-250x396.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Elias-Phillips-headstone-120x190.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Phillips-Elias.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Phillips-Elias.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Phillips-Elias-250x160.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Phillips-Elias-120x77.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elias Alexander Phillips Observer, 149 (East India) SquadronService number 112015Died 8 June 1942Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, GermanyAge 32 Headstone Inscription&#8216;NATURE MIGHT STAND UP AND SAY TO ALL THE WORLD, &#8220;THIS WAS A MAN!&#8221; Elias was born on 2 February 1910 in East Ham, Essex to Sydney and Bessie n\u00e9e Marks and had an older&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/phillips-elias-alexander\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9154,"parent":22,"menu_order":486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phillips, Elias Alexander | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/phillips-elias-alexander\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phillips, Elias Alexander | Remembering the Jews of WW2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Elias Alexander Phillips Observer, 149 (East India) SquadronService number 112015Died 8 June 1942Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, GermanyAge 32 Headstone Inscription&#8216;NATURE MIGHT STAND UP AND SAY TO ALL THE WORLD, &#8220;THIS WAS A MAN!&#8221; Elias was born on 2 February 1910 in East Ham, Essex to Sydney and Bessie n\u00e9e Marks and had an older... 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