Midshipman Philip A. de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1923, at Chelsea, the son of Canadian-born architect Louis and Elinor Maud de Savoie-Carignan de Soissons (née Penrose-Thackwell), of Gloucestershire.
Aged 17, de Soissons died on 23 May 1941, when German aircraft attacked and sunk the light cruiser HMS Fiji off the Greek island of Crete, with the loss of 241 of the ship's crew.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Portsmouth Naval Memorial..
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- De Soissons, Philip A. de Savoie-Carignan, cwgc.org. Retrieved 4 October 2012.