Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan Sandhurst, Alfred Tippinge ya kasance mai kula da rundunar 68th a 1838. Ya tashi ta hanyar matsayi a matsayin Lieutenant 1843, kyaftin 1847, da kuma babban majalisa a 1854, sa'an nan kuma ya canja shi zuwa Grenadier Guards. Ya zama kyaftin da kuma Laftanar Kanar a 1858. Ya "yi aiki tare da bambanci" a fannoni hudu na yakin Crimea: Alma
, Balaclava, Sebastapol da kuma Inkerman. Ya ji rauni sosai a Inkerman, kuma "an bar shi ya mutu a filin... na tsawon sa'o'i ashirin da hudu" kafin ceto. Bayan yaƙin na 1854 ya karɓi "lambar Crimea tare da ƙuƙwalwa huɗu, Knighthood [ko Chevalier] na Legion of Honor, aji na biyar na Medjidie, da lambar Turkiyya". "Hampshire Advertiser" ya kira shi "Inkerman hero", kuma ya ce, "An taba bayyana shi a matsayin daya daga cikin maza mafi ƙarfin zuciya a cikin aikin da aka sani". Tippinge ya yi ritaya daga soja a shekara ta 1858.