SAMPLE THREE

Text Box: Colonel George Braithwaite Phillips

Text Box: Born in the year 1836, and dying on the 26th of March 1900, aged 64, Colonel Phillips left this world as the highest ranking WA police officer of the time, the Commissioner of Police.
Before achieving the rank of Police Commissioner, Phillips had held various State offices in the Swan River Colony, with his personal connection to the public service of Western Australia extending as far back as to the year of 1851. It was at this time George Phillips was made a writer in the Colonial Secretary’s office in Perth.

In 1852, Phillips was upgraded to Third Clerk in the office, and in 1856 he was promoted to Second Clerk. While in this position, Phillips was employed as a clerk in the Government’s private office. After several promotions within the Government office, Phillips was made a Justice of the Peace in 1878. When he retired from the volunteer force, he was then given the rank of Major. In April 1887, Phillips was appointed the Commissioner of Police, with a further job placement in 1890 as Commandant of the Volunteer Force.

George Phillips grew up in the Darling Ranges, and married twice in his life. Phillips had three daughters with his first wife, one of these daughters dying six months before Phillip’s death. His wife then died several years before Phillips. George re-married, and his wife survived George, who caught a lung illness during the last week of his life. This then developed into pneumonia, and George Phillips succumbed to the illness, dying on the 26th on March, 1900.