Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 14/10/1914
- Date of Discharge
- 11/05/1920
- Place of Enlistment
- Hobart, Tasmania
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 12/11/1895
- Place of Birth
- Hobart, Tasmania
- Address (at enlistment)
- Lower Sandy Bay, Tasmania (previously Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT)
- Occupation
- Surveyor
- Next of Kin
- Leslie Lipscombe (father), Lower Sandy Bay, Tasmania
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 3022A
- Final Rank
- Lieutenant
- Final Unit
- 4 Division Artillery AIF
Notes
Lipscombe entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in March 1913 but was discharged on 7 February 1914 having been found unfit for military service because of deafness. He returned to Tasmania where he worked as a surveyor. Lipscombe enlisted in October 1914 and embarked for Egypt soon after with the Divisional Ammunition Column. He landed on Gallipoli in May 1915 but was wounded in August 1915 while serving with the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. According to a newspaper report Lispcombe was wounded by a shrapnel ball which passed through his chest and out his back as well as a wound to the arm. His service file indicates that he was wounded in the head. Lipscombe returned to Australia to recover but on 1 April 1917 he was appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 29th reinforcements for the Field Artillery Brigade. He arrived in France a year later and was appointed as a Lieutenant with the 4th Division Artillery. Lipscombe married in England in November 1919 and returned to Australia in early 1920. When he enlisted in the Voluntary Defence Corps in World War 2 Lipscombe was living in Taree, New South Wales. He died in Strahan, Tasmania on 26 December 1949, aged 56 years.
Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 171 pounds, chest 36 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England, birth mark left hip.
Sources
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
The Mercury (Hobart) - 1 October 1915, 29 December 1949