Regiment: Royal Sussex Regt..
Died: 10 July 1944 aged 30 in France. Killed in action.
Battle: Operation Overlord: June – August 1944. Cemetery: La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres VII. A. 2.
Son of Frank and Emily Shippam, Potwell Copse Ho., Walberton, Arundel, Sussex.
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Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Husband of Elizabeth Mary Shippam, of Bighton, Hampshire.
Royal Sussex Regiment attd. 1/7th Bn. Middlesex Regiment.
Mentioned in Despatches.
At 16:00 on the 9th July 1944 he was wounded by a mine whilst making a recce in a jeep near Colville. The next day the unit war diary stated that 'Report received on death of Captain Shippam from pneumonia brought on by shock, a very sad loss.'
Unit war diary: WO 171/1345