Bagnall, Philip Walter Jowett

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Philip Walter Jowett Bagnall

Second Lieutenant, 1/6th Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Territorial Force)
Killed in action, 10 August 1915, aged 19
No known grave (Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey)

CWGC registered (Only son of Capt Walter George Bagnall [Duke of Wellington’s Regt] JP, CC, of Hawthorpe Hall, Uppermill, Oldham, and “Cintra,” Llandudno, N. Wales, and the late Edith Jane Bagnall [nee Jowett])

Philip Bagnall was the son of Walter George Bagnall and his wife Edith Jane Bagnall (née Jowett). He was born in Mellor, Derbyshire on 5 August 1895, his mother dying shortly thereafter. His father owned an oil company in Manchester.

The 1901 Census records the Bagnall family, headed by Aimee Bagnall, Philip’s grandmother, residing in Aspenshaw Hall, New Mills, Derbyshire. The next year, Walter George Bagnall married Ellen Frances Heap Bradbury and both are recorded in 1911 as living at Saddleworth. At the same time, Philip was in residence with his grandmother and three maiden aunts at “Painsley House”, Wellington Road, Rhyl. He attended Sywell House School, Rhyl.

On 19 September 1914 at Caernarvon, Philip Bagnall joined the 6th (Carnarvonshire and Anglesey) Battalion (Territorial Force) RWF as a private. The papers he signed were for a four-year engagement. He gave his address as “Ucheldre”, Tan-y-Bryn Road, Llandudno (which, according to a 1918 directory was one of his father’s addresses). The Battalion moved on mobilisation to Conwy, and then to Northampton, Bedford and Cambridge. Clearly he signed for “Imperial Service” because he joined the first line battalion (the 1/6th).

Philip Bagnall received a commission as a second lieutenant on 21 April 1915. The battalion sailed from Devonport on 19 July 1915 and disembarked at Sulva Bay on 9 August 1915.

Philip Bagnall was killed in action near Chocolate Hill on 10 August 1915 aged 19. He was initially reported as a prisoner of the Turks. He has no known grave.

Known memorials:

• Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
• Llandudno Roll of Honour
• Llandudno War Memorial
• Memorial Chapel, Holy Trinity Church, Llandudno
• Llanrhos Parish War Memorial, All Saints’ Church, Deganwy
• St. Thomas’ Church, Mellor