Sidney Thomas Tipper RAF

This man appears as both "S T Tipper 313 " and "S K Kipper 416" with a note on the Register that they are the same. "Tipper" is the correct one.

1899 Aug 16. Born Mile End Old Town, London

1901 census at 9, Tudor Road, East Ham

1911 census at 25 Savage Gardens, Trinity Sq, City of London

1918 Jan 10. Cadet to be temp 2nd Lt in RFC. S T Tipper.

1919 Jun 20. RAF 2nd Lt to be Lt. S. T. Tipper (since demobilised).

1919 Nov 12. Transferred to unemployed List. 2nd Lt. S. T. Tipper.

1920 Aug 20 Form 3 Transfer ADRIC service no 313. Posted to C Coy

1920 Dec 4 ." Struck off as a deserter" from ADRIC. But another register says transferred to RAF, resignation accepted 17 Dec 1920

1921 Jan 17. RAF. The undermentioned are granted short service commissions with effect from the dates indicated, in the ranks stated', retaining their present seniority in the substantive rank last held prior to the grant of this commission, except where otherwise stated: Flying Officer Sidney Thomas TIPPER.

1930 Jan 17. Reserve of Air Force Officers. The undermentioned Flying Officers relinquish their commissions on completion of service:— Sidney Thomas TIPPER.

1934 Juil married • Marylebone, Middlesex, to Beatrice Evelyn Daly (1902–1985)

1939 Register In 16 Gaskell Avenue, Knutsford , Knutsford U.D., Cheshire, He is a tyre salesman & manager. Living with Dorothy Tipper. While his wife Beatrice was living elsewhere, in St Pancras

I'm trying to find out information about my grandfather Sydney Thomas Tipper. I know he was born in England in October 1900. He was a pilot in the RFC in WW1 and in WW2 he was night time bomber commander stationed at Squires Gate. Not exactly sure of the dates he was there but we think it was around 1948-1951. he was married to Dorothy Mathews and he died in 1969.

1942 Oct/Dec married • Hammersmith, London to Dorothy Matthews (1908–1967)

1954 Feb 10 Relinquishes his RAFVR commission and retains the rank of Wing Commander

1968 /Sep 22 Died Southampton, Hampshire aged 68.

 

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