Major Henry Faudel FAUDEL-PHILLIPS Croix de Guerre
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, General Reserve of Cavalry

Date of birth: 7th January 1884
Date of death: 30th March 1971

Died aged 87
Buried at Holy Trinity Church, Crockham Hill, Kent.
Henry Faudel Faudel-Phillips was born at 8, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square in London on the 7th of January 1884 the only son of Samuel Henry Faudel-Phillips JP,DL, a gentleman, and Sarah Georgina (nee White) Faudel-Phillips of 17 Grosvenor Street West London and of Mapleton, Westerham in Kent. He was christened at All Souls Church, Langham Place.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1896. On leaving the school, the magazine wrote the following on him: - "Leaves too soon, and has been actually at work here so very little that it would be unsafe to indulge in any prophesy as to what Eton will make of him."

He went on to Eton College where he was in H. Macnaghten and the Reverend H. Daman's houses leaving in 1900.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) on the 29th of May 1901 and on the 25th of March 1902 he transferred to the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 9th of September 1904. He resigned his commission on the 4th of May 1907.

He was married at Trinity Church, Chelsea to Ellen Elsa (nee Deane-Tanner) on the 31st of October 1905.

Following the outbreak of war he was reappointed as a Lieutenant in his former regiment on the 15th of September 1914. On the 24th of January 1916 he was appointed as Adjutant to his regiment, a post he held until the 16th of August 1916 when he was appointed as a Staff Captain. He was promoted to Captain on the 6th of August 1917.

He saw service in France, the Balkans, and Egypt as a Staff Officer and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. On the 16th of April 1918 he was appointed as an Assistant Provost Marshall with the rank of Temporary Major a rank he relinquished on the 19th of February 1919. He retired from the service with the rank of Temporary Major on the 4th of March 1919 due to ill health from illness contracted while on active service.

Following the death of his fist wife in 1935, he was married again in 1946 to Olive Mary Eldon (nee Pratt); they had a daughter, Harriett O. born on the 23rd of September 1946.

He was a keen horseman being voted President of the National Pony Society in 1914 and was appointed as a council member of the Hunter's Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society at the society's annual meeting in 1938. He was regular attendee at the Hunters Show at the Agricultural Hall in Islington where he won a number of awards over the years. He was also a council member of the Council of the Institute of the Horse which formed a junior branch of the organisation which became the Pony Club in 1929 under his chairmanship. He also published books on ponies, "A Child's Guide to Horse Knowledge" in 1927 and "The Driving Book, Breaking and Schooling" published in 1943; his wife Olive published "Keeping a Pony at Grass".

During the Second World War he re-joined the army and became a Major with Y Sector, London District of the Home Guard and was created as a Member of the British Empire (Military) for his services, which was announced in the London Gazette of the 15th of December 1944.

He died at home.
Went on to Eton College

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