Roland Philipps

Roland Erasmus Philipps, MC (27 February 1890 – 7 July 1916) was a writer and a leading Scout official.

He was the second son of John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids and his first wife, Leonora Gerstenberg.

Shortly before the war, he was adopted as prospective Liberal candidate for South Glamorgan.

For his actions in the assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, he was awarded the Military Cross, as a temporary captain with 9th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), in April 1916.

[5] Philipps' only sibling, Colwyn, the previous heir apparent to the title (the Baron St Davids) had also been killed in the war on 13 May 1915.