H. W. Lippold
Service no. 550848
Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), “D” Coy. 2nd/16th Battalion
Enlisted in Westminster; lived in Clapham
Killed in action age 42 on 28 September 1918
CWGC: “Son of Conrad and Rosalie Lippold, of 28 Grantham Road, Clapham, London; husband of Elizabeth Lippold, of 107 Nutfield Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Served from Sept 1914.”
Remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Information from the censuses
In 1911 Henry Walter Lippold lived at 28 Grantham Road, Stockwell with his widowed mother, Rosalie Henrietta Lippold (née Uffman), 75, who was born in the Strand, London, and his sisters, Clementina Henrietta Lippold, 45 and Henrietta Ida Lippold, 39. The family occupied 7 rooms. Henry was a clerk for a stationers. Rosalie had had 12 children with her husband, Conrad Lippold (5 had died), watchmaker and naturalised British subject from Hanover, Germany. In 1901 Henry was working as a watchmaker’s clerk and his younger brother Albert A. Lippold, then 23, as a scientific instrument maker.