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27 & 28 September 2016

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Lot

№ 863

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£220

Three: Company Sergeant Major G. Tippet, Pom-Pom Section, Royal Horse Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (463 Serjt: G. Tippet 10th. Coy. W.D. R.G.A.) small area of erasure after surname; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (463 Serjt: G. Tippett. R.H.A.) unit officially corrected; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (463 C.S. Mjr: G. Tippet. R.G.A.) good very fine (3) £160-200

George Tippet was born in 1875 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, and attested for the Royal Artillery on 8 November 1893. The following year he suffered his only injury in service - a sprain of the ankle on 21 June 1894. He served with the Artillery in South Africa from 3 February 1900 until 5 April 1902, during which he was posted for service with ‘M’ Section, Pom-Poms, Royal Horse Artillery, and promoted Sergeant, 5 September 1900. On his return home from South Africa he transferred to the Cardigan Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), 29 July 1902, and was advanced Company Sergeant Major, and Instructor in Gunnery, 1 June 1904. Tippet was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 104 of 1912, before being invalided out of the service at Netley on 9 April 1912, having spent the last two and a half years in Aden, after 18 years and 153 days’ service.