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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 9,919 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tom Phillips is the 1,437th most popular military personnel (down from 1,256th in 2019), the 3,014th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,726th in 2019) and the 80th most popular British Military Personnel.

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  • 16

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tom Phillips ranks 1,437 out of 1,468. Before him are Jalil Zandi, Thomas Gage, Arthur MacArthur Jr., Aleksei Evert, Moe Berg, and Lewis Powell. After him are Yekaterina Zelenko, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Ioannis Frangoudis, Alexander Gorbatov, John Moore, and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Tom Phillips ranks 159. Before him are Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Louis J. Mordell, Dan Andersson, Edward Cook, Ralph Hartley, and Ronald Knox. After him are Alfred Asikainen, Jean Bouin, Marie Rambert, Kārlis Zāle, Juan Antonio Ríos, and Florence Lee. Among people deceased in 1941, Tom Phillips ranks 134. Before him are Milka Ternina, Sueo Ōe, Penelope Delta, Louis Brandeis, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, and Lev Dovator. After him are Yekaterina Zelenko, Marcus Hurley, Źmitrok Biadula, Igor Severyanin, Chris Watson, and Fritz Noether.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tom Phillips ranks 3,014 out of 7,765. Before him are Ronald Knox (1888), Richard Hooker (1554), Theo James (1984), William Hazlitt (1778), Frederick Abel (1827), and Mark Addy (1964). After him are Warren Clarke (1947), Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), Michael Tippett (1905), Robert Lindsay (1890), William Withering (1741), and Denny Laine (1944).

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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), Boston Corbett (1832), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), Christopher Cradock (1862), Roy Urquhart (1901), and Thomas Gage (1719). After him are John Moore (1761), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), David Stirling (1915), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), and Charles Lee (1731).

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