MILITARY PERSONNEL

Tom Phillips

1888 - 1941

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Admiral Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips, (19 February 1888 – 10 December 1941) was a Royal Navy officer who served during the First and Second World Wars. He was nicknamed "Tom Thumb", due to his short stature. He is best known for his command of Force Z during the Japanese invasion of Malaya, where he went down with his flagship, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tom Phillips has received more than 10,356 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tom Phillips is the 1,695th most popular military personnel (down from 1,435th in 2019), the 3,105th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,006th in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

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  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tom Phillips ranks 1,695 out of 2,058. Before him are Nelson A. Miles, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Francisco Ascaso, Anatoly Kvashnin, George Pickett, and John Troglita. After him are Chi Haotian, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Silvestras Žukauskas, Władysław Raginis, Walther Reinhardt, and Nikola Ivanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Tom Phillips ranks 173. Before him are Irving Cummings, Walther von Wartburg, Gladys Cooper, František Langer, Osip Brik, and Florence Lee. After him are Edward Cook, Edith Evans, Juan Antonio Ríos, Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Adam Zamenhof, and Kaare Klint. Among people deceased in 1941, Tom Phillips ranks 151. Before him are Štefan Banič, Fred Karno, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Fritz Noether, Penelope Delta, and Ibrahim Tuqan. After him are Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Igor Severyanin, Émile Nelligan, Nikolai Gastello, Leo Deutsch, and Dmitry Lavrinenko.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tom Phillips ranks 3,105 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Twort (1877), William Withering (1741), Geoff Duke (1923), Dave Holland (1948), Andrew Marvell (1621), and James Arthur (1988). After him are David Don (1799), Dora Carrington (1893), Duncan Grant (1885), Anna Massey (1937), William Thoms (1803), and Charles Townshend (1725).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Tom Phillips ranks 80. Before him are Edward Braddock (1695), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Timothy Laurence (1955), and Roy Urquhart (1901). After him are Lawrence Oates (1880), Charles Lee (1731), Frederick Browning (1896), John Benbow (1653), Harry Patch (1898), and James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797).

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