MILITARY PERSONNEL

Jack Phillips

1887 - 1912

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John George "Jack" Phillips (11 April 1887 – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor and the senior wireless operator aboard the Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage in April 1912. On the final evening, Phillips had been exceptionally busy clearing a backlog of messages caused by a wireless breakdown. The steamship Mesaba sent an ice alert; he acknowledged it, but failed to pass it on to the bridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Phillips has received more than 23,281 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jack Phillips is the 865th most popular military personnel (down from 559th in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,039th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jack Phillips ranks 865 out of 2,058Before him are Hiroshi Ōshima, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Serena, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Shūmei Ōkawa, and Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan. After him are Leon Rupnik, Sergey Kamenev, Yitzhak Sadeh, Joseph Trumpeldor, Jacques Massu, and Zygmunt Berling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jack Phillips ranks 91Before him are Mario Roatta, Octave Lapize, Louis Jouvet, Lil Dagover, Josef Lada, and Friedrich Zander. After him are Hanns Kerrl, Hitoshi Ashida, Annette Kellermann, Roscoe Arbuckle, François Faber, and Walter Ruttmann. Among people deceased in 1912, Jack Phillips ranks 44Before him are William Booth, W. T. Stead, Duchess Amalie in Bavaria, Wallace Hartley, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Julius Maggi. After him are Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Thomas Byles, Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, Gustave de Molinari, Herman Bang, and Jacques Futrelle.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Phillips ranks 1,527 out of 8,785Before him are Trevor Horn (1949), William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720), John Martin (1789), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Roger Williamson (1948), and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608). After him are Algernon Blackwood (1869), Kay Parker (1944), Louise d'Orléans (1869), Frederick Delius (1862), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), and Christopher Isherwood (1904).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Jack Phillips ranks 27Before him are William Stuart-Houston (1911), Harold Lowe (1882), William Bligh (1754), Joseph Boxhall (1884), Bertram Ramsay (1883), and Andrew Parker Bowles (1939). After him are Robert Maynard (1684), Henry Tandey (1891), Henry Allingham (1896), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852), and Robert Blake (1599).