Reginald Welchman Phelps

Service number: 1585

Rank: Lance-Corporal

Unit: 19th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Reg Phelps was born at Ashfield in 1889 and was an orchardist, like his brother. He enlisted on 16 April 1915, giving as next of kin his father at Woods Parade, Manly.

He served with the 19th Battalion at Gallipoli, where he was wounded in the shoulder and was also treated for enteric. He was then attached to the Red Cross Society in Egypt in an administrative role. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal.

He returned to Australia on the Plassyon 20 September 1919.