Name
Charles Stanley Hipwell (MC)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
2nd/16th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAROEUIL BRITISH CEMETERY
III. H. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Plaque in St Peter & St Paul Church, Olney, Bucks.
Pre War
Born on 4 Sep 1887 in Olney, Buckinghamshire son of John Charles and Annie Eva (Walker) Hipwell.
Educated at Haileybury College 1901-05.
Wartime Service
He entered France on 16 Jun 1916. “On 23 Sep 1916 he led a successful raid into the enemy trenches which resulted in the capture of prisoners. He engaged a firebay full of Germans and silenced them with his revolver, remaining standing on the parapet while his men crossed the hostile wire and thereafter until the last man had left for our lines. He went out again under continuous fire to search no man’s land for a wounded man. The success of the raid was due to his determination and resourceful leading for which he was awarded the Military Cross.” (Extract from the official record).
He was killed in action at Vimy three weeks later.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
