Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Sandhurst gasịrị, Alfred Tippinge bụ onye na-ahụ maka ndị agha nke 68 na 1838. Ọ rịgooro n'ọkwa dịka onye isi ndị agha n'afọ 1843, onye isi ndị agha n'afọ 1847, na onye isi ndị agha n'afọ 1854, mgbe ahụ a kpọfere ya na Grenadier Guards. Ọ ghọrọ onye isi na osote onye ọchịagha na 1858. O "jiri nsọpụrụ jee ozi" n'akụkụ anọ nke mkpọsa Crimea:
Alma, Balaclava, Sebastapol na Inkerman. Ọ merụrụ ahụ nke ukwuu na Inkerman, ma "hapụ ya ka ọ nwụọ n'ọhịa... ruo awa iri abụọ na anọ" tupu a napụta ya. Mgbe agha ahụ nke afọ 1854 gasịrị, e nyere ya "ihe nrite Crimea nke nwere ihe anọ e ji akpọchi ya, ihe nrite ndị ọchịagha [ma ọ bụ Chevalier] nke òtù ndị agha a na-akpọ Legion of Honour, nke ise n'ime klas Medjidie, na ihe nrite ndị Turkey". Akwụkwọ akụkọ "Hampshire Advertiser" kpọrọ ya "Inkerman hero", ma kwuo, sị, "O nwere mgbe a kọwara ya dị ka otu n'ime ndị ikom kasị nwee obi ike n'agha a ma ama". Tippinge lara ezumike nká n'ọrụ agha n'afọ 1858.