ROBERT PICKERING PHIPPS, Captain, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, was the eldest son of Mr R P Phipps of the Hollies, Tettenhall.  He came to the school in May 1910 and left in July 1914.  He had been a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C and answered the first note of the trumpet call for war.  He was soon granted a commission, trained, and sent to France, and there proved his  capacity to such an extent that, after the heavy losses at the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, he was made temporary Captain and Adjutant.  With little remission he was engaged in the subsequent operations of the British Forces up to the very recent capture of Beaumont Hamel.  Here his battalion had to advance against a position of extraordinary difficulty and it suffered very heavily.  Phipps was wounded in the wrist early in the action but insisted on advancing.  “The rest remaineth unrevealed.”  He was not yet 20 years of age.