Born in Buckinghamshire.
Enlisted at Westminster on the 11th of January 1849.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Chair-maker.
Wounded in action at Balaclava.
Died "with the Regiment," on the 9th of December 1854.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
An impressed naming medal, with clasps for A. B. and I., only was sold at a Sotheby's auction on the 13th of July 1926 and was known to be in an English collection in 1973.
This medal, with the three clasps as recorded, and with officially impressed naming to "Joseph Phillips. 4th Lt. Dragons." was offered in a Spanks/Christie's auction on the 12th of March 1996.