Titanic’s chief wireless officer John George Phillips, pictured here on the right, was remembered in his home town of Godalming, Surrey, by the construction of the biggest memorial to a single Titanic victim, the Phillips Memorial Cloister, pictured here on the left.
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Upon leaving school, Phillips worked at the Post Office in Godalming, where he developed his radio skills and became a telegraphist.
Amongst the many contributors to the memorial fund was Titanic’s junior radio operator, Harold Sydney Bride, who donated the sum of £1 5d.
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The memorial and surrounding gardens underwent a major restoration project in 1993.
There is also a memorial headstone in the style of an iceberg in the town’s Old Cemetery dedicated to Phillips, even though his body was never recovered.