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Captain R.J. Tipton: An Appreciation. With an Account of His Escape from Turkey in Asia During the World's Great War, 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 36+35pp., 229x150mm, portrait frontis., 11 plates, 3 maps. Liverpool: Printed by Sloane & Co. Ltd.
1918
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Captain Richard James Tipton, 3rd West Lancs. R.F.A., attached to the Royal Flying Corps, was born in 1892 and educated at Birkenhead School. He served with 14th Squadron R.F.C., based in Egypt, and was twice Mentioned In Despatches. On June 18th, 1916, he was forced down in Turkish territory during a bombing raid. He famously escaped from Kastamuni PoW Camp in Turkey along with E.H. Keeling, H.C.W. Bishop (who both wrote books recounting this adventure) & Capt. R.T. Sweet of the Gurkhas (who was killed during the escape). The three survivors crossed the Black Sea in a twenty-five foot fishing boat. Captain Tipton returned to active duty with the R.F.C. and was wounded in aerial combat on 9th March 1918: although mortally wounded he landed his aircraft, was taken to 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, and there died of wounds on 12th March. He was twenty-five years old and is buried in Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension. The first section of the book contains a short memoir and a selection of letters of condolence, followed by a reprint of Captain Keeling's account of the escape from Kastamuni and voyage across the Black Sea to safety which was first published in Blackwood's magazine in May 1918. Brown cloth blocked with title, RFC wings and RA badge to front, little marked, VG.
£225
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