Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

The Gallipoli Campaign was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916. in a failed attempt to defeat Turkey by seizing the Dardanelles and capturing Istanbul. Ill-conceived and planned, the initial effort by the Royal Navy failed to force passage through the Dardanelles by sea power alone. It was then realised that a land force was needed to support the project by suppressing the Turkish mobile artillery batteries. By the time all was ready the Turks were well aware and well prepared. Despite amazing heroics on the day of the landings only minor beachheads were achieved and over the succeeding 8 months little progress was made. Eventually the beachheads were evacuated in a series of successful ruses.

Despite Gallipoli rightly becoming a national source of pride to Australians and New Zealanders, far more British casualties were sustained, and these days the substantial French contribution is almost forgotten.

Detail :

http://www.sudburysuffolk.co.uk/greatwar/profile.asp?id=532 Major Charles Henry Tippet 7th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers (?Lieutenant Colonel? on original Roll of Honour) Charles Tippet was born around 1863 in Maltby, Yorkshire. At the age of 18 he was boarding in Skegness, Lincolnshire employed as a surveyors articled clerk. By 1891 he, his wife Edith and their eldest daughter were living in Wales at St. Woollos, Newport, where he was recorded as a land agent and surveyor. Charles, Edith, and their 3 children came to live in North House on the Croft, Sudbury, which is now a dentist?s surgery. Charles served in the Boer War. In civilian life he was involved in Suffolk's politics. He drafted the rules governing the Suffolk division of Conservative Associations and was its first secretary. He was the political agent for Sir Cuthbert Quilter, Sudbury?s M.P. Charles was also a founder and the first captain of Newton Green Golf Club in 1907. He was a close friend of Lt. Harwood Clover and the Clover family. His daughter Marjorie married John Manning Clover of Dedham Hall, who was related to the Sudbury Clovers. His son Herbert Charles Coningsby joined his father?s regiment; serving with 4th Battalion he survived the war, winning the Military Cross. On the 2nd September 1914 an article appeared in the Suffolk and Essex Free Press, ?Major and Hon. Lt. Colonel C. H. Tippet, of the Croft, late 4th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who offered his services at the disposal of the War Office immediately on the outbreak of war, has been posted to the 7th(Service) Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers and ordered to join his regiment?. Charles died aged 52 on 7th August 1915, the day after landing at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsular and lies buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey. He is also remembered on the memorial window in St. Gregory?s Church. See INVIDUALS - PHOTO The following has been provided by W.Bro. Rod Gibson (Suffolk) Maj. Charles Henry Tippet, 7th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Killed in Action 7th August 1915. Age 52. Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey. Special Memorial H. 5. Stating that he is thought to be buried in this cemetery. Past Master, PProvGStwd. Charles was born in the 2nd quarter of 1863 in Maltby, Yorkshire West Riding, to Henry Vivian, Land Agent, and Charlotte Seal Tippet and at the time of the 1881 census he was lodging in Skegness as a Surveyors Articled Clerk. In the 4th quarter of 1886 he married Edith Alice Goodson in Grantham, Lincolnshire. The 1911 census shows Charles and Edith living at The Croft, Sudbury, Suffolk, with their two daughters, Irene Violet and Adeline Sophie. One child had unfortunately died and Herbert was a 2nd Lt. In the 2nd Dublin Fusiliers, serving at Tournay Barracks, Aldershot. The War Diary of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers for 7th August 1915 reads; Suvla Bay: Arrived Salt Lake Bay at 4am. It was only at this stage that Brigade (Brig. Gen. Hill) saw Gen. Stopford and received orders for the landing. Gen. Stopford was said to be surprised to hear that Brig. Gen. Hill had not received any operational orders. A and C Coys and 1 Platoon of B Coy under Major M P E Lonsdale disembarked on motor lighter at 7 am landing on C Beach. During trip came under accurate shrapnel fire. One officer severely wounded, 1 man killed, 14 wounded. The remainder of the Bn., less two platoons on baggage fatigue, under Lt. Col. G Downing landed at 8.30 am. Both half battalions came under heavy shrapnel fire on landing. The half under Major Lonsdale having advanced to the south east corner of Valli Babah. At this point both half battalions stacked their packs and advanced eastwards across the spit under a heavy fire from enemy shrapnel. A and C Coys still under Major Lonsdale continued eastwards for about 1.5 miles where they wheeled to the right and formed the firing line of the attack on Hill 53. Their advance being entirely by rushes. In the meantime, the remainder of the battalion under Lt Col Downing had also advanced and entered the attack by cutting in the rear of A and C Coys. This at about 2 pm. C Coy however, having moved well to the left, D Coy joined in with A Coy near a well some 200 yards from the position. From this the battalion was subjected to heavy shrapnel, maxim and rifle fire, through which it steadily and quickly advanced from one piece of cover to the next. Owing to the rapidity and frequencies of the advances the casualties were greatly reduced, but C Coy were unlucky in losing their company commander, Major C H Tippet (Killed) and Lt. E L Julian (badly wounded). The hill was captured about 2 pm by parts of A and D Coys and details of other regiments, the whole led by Major R S M Harrison. Casualties; 3 officers, 109 other ranks. His son, Herbert Charles Coningsby Tippet, MC., arrived in France on 14th May 1916 and survived the war, albeit with Shell Shock which affected him for the remainder of his life. He is also remembered in the Memorial Records of Ireland. Probate was granted to this widow in London on the 12th January 1916 in the sum of £255 12s 10d.

Masonic :

Charles was initiated in 1890 in Newport, Monmouthshire at Isca Lodge. The records show that he was 2 years arrears in this Lodge probably resulting in a Rule 175 exclusion from 1895. Despite that we see him again in Lodge of Agriculture No. 1199, Yatton, Somerset having joined it 21st April 1894. He resigned from this Lodge in 1900. We next see him join Stour Valley Lodge, Sudbury 30th October 1903.
Past Provincial Grand Steward (Suffolk)

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley