Next of Kin plaque : Private Charles Frederick Phillips, 2nd Battalion , AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'CHARLES PHILLIPS'.

Born at Boggabilla, New South Wales in 1890, Charles Frederick 'Charlie' Phillips was employed as a labourer and cook at Goondiwindi, when he travelled to Sydney to enlist in the AIF on 23 October 1916, using only his first given name on his enlistment paper. After basic training he was posted as a private, service number 7023, to the 28th Reinforcements to the 2nd Battalion.

Phillips sailed from Sydney on 9 November, aboard the troopship A24 Benalla. He was hospitalised as soon as he reached England, in January 1917, and was finally taken on strength of C Company of his battalion in France on 10 May.

While the battalion was camped near Dickebusch in Belgium, on 27 October 1917, waiting to go up the line to Passchendaele, the lines of C Company were hit at 7.45 pm by one of three aerial bombs dropped by a German aircraft flying low at 200 feet, under cover of mist. Twelve men, including Phillips, were killed outright, a fourteen were wounded and a further four subsequently died of their wounds. The dead were buried in the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery near Ypres.

This commemorative plaque was sent to Phillip's mother, Mrs Annie Eliza Tomlin, in October 1922.