BX May 3, 1915
Private Ernest Phipps was a married man, employed as a repairer on the maintenance gang of the Grand Trunk Railway here. He had one daughter, Mrs. Bater, whose husband, Lance Corporal Bater, is also at the front with the first contingent from the Dufferin Rifles. Pte. Phipps is 42 years old, and while here resided at 37 Greenwich Street East. He was not a member of the Duffs previous to the war, but had seen Imperial service, having been stationed at the Tower of London. He lived with Private Knightley who recently was invalided from the front. Mrs. Bater returned to the old land in March, to be nearer to her husband, so that there are no members of the family here now. Pte. Phipps was four years with the Third Leicester Regiment.
BX March 20, 1916
Hero Returning
Another Brantford hero is expected back in the city shortly in the person of Private Ernest Phipps of the 4th Battalion. Pte. Phipps, who was among the first to leave this city for overseas, is being returned as unfit for further service, he being seriously wounded in the big battle of Ypres last April, where he was shot through his left arm and bayoneted in the right knee. As a result of the wound in his left arm, the fingers of that hand are badly contracted. Pte. Phipps was also a victim of the deadly German gas. He is expected back here by the end of the month.
BX April 3, 1916
Wounded Hero Returned Home – Pte. E. Phipps Given Quiet Reception – Has Contracted Fingers
Another name has been added to the rapidly growing list of Brantford’s returned heroes, Private Ernest Phipps, who left here with the First Contingent and has seen considerable service in the trenches, returned to the city last evening. Owing to it being Sunday evening it was decided not to have a public demonstration, but Ald. J.S. Dowling met Pte. Phipps at the station and after bidding him a welcome on behalf of the Returned Soldiers’ Commission escorted him home in an automobile.
Private Phipps, who was wounded on May 1, through being shot in the left arm, has spent considerable time in the hospitals in France and England, where he was accorded the best of treatment. The fingers of his hand are badly contracted as a result of the wound. Pte. Phipps who is a married man, and lives at 131 Market Street, was very grateful for the kind reception tendered him by Ald. Dowling on behalf of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission.
