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. Before the collision with the iceberg, Phillips and his assistant, Harold Bride, had acknowledged and passed along several ice warnings to the bridge. As the ship sank, Phillips did his utmost to contact other ships for assistance and coordinated a successful rescue effort with RMS Carpathia. He did not survive the sinking and his body, if recovered, was not identified. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Phillips is the 247th most popular military personnel (up from 866th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,528th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Jack Phillips ranks 247 out of 2,058. Before him are Toyotomi Hideyori, Maximilian von Weichs, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Wu Sangui, Slobodan Praljak, and Bai Qi. After him are Pedro de Valdivia, Juan Pujol García, Wilhelm Mohnke, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Kurt Student, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Jack Phillips ranks 32. Before him are Nadia Boulanger, Georg Trakl, Chūichi Nagumo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Felix Yusupov, and Ruth Benedict. After him are August Macke, Wolfgang Köhler, Nikolai Vavilov, Lothar Rendulic, Alvin York, and Alexander Archipenko. Among people deceased in 1912, Jack Phillips ranks 14. Before him are Auguste Beernaert, Jules Massenet, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, Frederick VIII of Denmark, and Karl May. After him are Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, W. T. Stead, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and Johann Martin Schleyer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Phillips ranks 587 out of 8,785. Before him are Samuel Johnson (1709), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), A. J. Cronin (1896), William Petty (1623), Joan of the Tower (1321), and Edward the Confessor (1003). After him are George Green (1793), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Margot Fonteyn (1919), William Byrd (1543), Alexander Pope (1688), and Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Jack Phillips ranks 15. Before him are Alexander Selkirk (1676), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), Captain Tom (1920), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), and Rudolf Abel (1903). After him are Hugh Dowding (1882), Timothy Laurence (1955), Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Charles Lee (1731), and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891).

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