Lt. Frank Blamphin Tipping of No.59 Squadron. Any extra info please??

[potty5]

Hi all. I have decided to take a man off my local war memorial and study his life and his military record. I have his service record and certain documents, plus a number of really good photos. Just wondering if there is anything out there I haven't covered or downloaded. Best wishes, Mark.

This is what I have on Frank.

Lieutenant Frank Blamphin TIPPING, No.59 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, attached to the 3/1st Welsh, Royal Garrison Artillery (Caernarvon), killed in action August 19, 1917 aged 21, in France. Buried Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, Somme, France (A. 18) and commemorated on the Crewe War Memorial. Born Liverpool, June 8, 1896. Son of Robert and Caroline Tipping of Lathbury Cottage, 190, Nantwich Road, Crewe. Educated at Crewe Secondary School (1908-11), where he was noted as a fine athlete  (previously at Bedford Street School). Was an expert violinist. Started playing when he was nine after receiving lessons from a relative. Received further lessons from Mr Battams of Crewe, and when he was only 10 years of age, he was performing in the Crewe Philharmonic Society Orchestra. He then became a pupil of the well-known conductor Professor Simon Speelman. At 13, he played solos on the North Pier at Blackpool and also became a member of Speelman’s Orchestra. Studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music where he came under the tutelage of the Russian virtuoso Doctor Brodsky. Aged 15, he secured a position in the celebrated Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Attended the Manchester University Officer Training Corps from March 16, 1915 until August 31, 1915. Killed when shot down whilst flying over enemy lines, between Cambrai and St. Quentin. At the time of his death, No.59 Squadron were flying the R.E.8 and operating from Mons-en-Chaussée.  

MANY THANKS FOR READING.
 

[ForeignGong]

Hi

His commissioning 

Page 9332 | Issue 29304, 21 September 1915 | London Gazette | The Gazette

[potty5]

ForeignGong, many thanks for this. Best wishes, Mark

[Airshipped]

Hi,

He wasn't too long with 59 Squadron, joining in 'Bloody April 1917:

https://www.casualtyforms.org/form/24487

2/Lt GS Gordon was the other occupant:

http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/archive/tipping-f.b.-frank-blamphin

That'd be George Strachan Gordon:

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/337525/george-strachan-gordon/

 

[Tawhiri]

It appears he also has an AIR 76 record as well. It's rather brief for obvious reasons, the first date in it is 11 September 1916 with a posting to Reading presumably for flying training.

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8234786

The list of RFC personal who received Royal Aero Club certificates on the previously mentioned airhistory.org site shows that he received certificate number 4147 on 16 January 1917.

Edited 19 August , 2022 by Tawhiri