Lieutenant-Colonel C.G. Lipscomb
4th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry

Lippy was outstanding in many difficult situations and none more so than when the remnants of 5 DCLI after a terrible time in Cornwall Wood on Hill 112, came back into our positions. He rallied them and sensing a crisis drew his pistol and shouted “I’ll shoot the first Somerset who goes back”

(Capt. J Majendie quoted in Martin Windrow, The Soldier’s Story, 113)

Born on 23 December 1907 in Margam, Glamorgan, Wales, Christopher Godfrey Lipscomb was commissioned with the Somerset Light Infantry after graduating from RMC, Sandhurst in 1928. He was attached to the Nigerian Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force from 1933 to September 1939. From 1941 to 1944, he was chief Instructor at an Officer Cadet Training Unit and then commandant at the divisional battle school.

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