Waxad ku qortaa sii wadida faqradan - Kadib Sandhurst, Alfred Tippinge wuxuu ahaa cadka guutada 68aad sanadkii 1838. Waxa uu sare u kacay darajooyinkii Lieutenant 1843, Captain 1847, iyo Brevet Major 1854, ka dibna waxaa loo wareejiyay Grenadier Guards. Wuxuu noqday kabtan iyo kornayl-ku-xigeen 1858. Wuxuu "si sharaf leh ugu adeegay" afar goobood oo ka mid ah ololihii Crimea: Alma
, Balaclava, Sebastapol iyo Inkerman. Waxaa si xun loogu dhaawacay Inkerman, waxaana "looga tagay meydka garoonka... afar iyo labaatan saacadood" ka hor badbaadinta. Ka dib ololihii 1854 wuxuu helay "billaddii Crimean oo leh afar xirmo, Knighthood [ama Chevalier] ee Legion of Honour, fasalka shanaad ee Medjidie, iyo billaddii Turkiga". Wargeyska "Hampshire Advertiser" ayaa ugu yeeray "Inkerman hero", wuxuuna yiri, "Waxaa la sheegay in uu ahaa ninka ugu geesinimada badan ee dagaal yahanka ah". Tippinge wuxuu ka fariistay ciidanka sanadkii 1858.