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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
2nd Lt. Edmund Tiplady
British Army 1/1st West Riding Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Bradford, West Riding
Edmund Tiplady (Seated) with his brother Guy
Edmund Tiplady joined the Territorial Force, West Yorkshire Artillery Regiment during August 1912. The war started when they were on their annual camp in August 1914, which meant that he was in uniform right from the beginning until he was discharged on March the 25th 1919.He first saw action during the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, where he was injured during one of the first chlorine gas attacks. He served in France and Belgium right through the war, first with the West Yorkshire Artillery Regiment, before being seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as an aerial artillery observer. He was commissioned in the field on 22nd of July 1918, before returning to England to undertake pilot training.
Although Edmund had a fairly good war compared to a lot of his contemporaries, he suffered with the after effects of being gassed for the rest of his life and finally succumbed to a lung infection on May 23rd 1955. It only took 40 years, but the German gas killed him in the end. I know of the above due to my late Grandmother Gwendoline Tiplady.
Edmund Tiplady in RAF uniform with his wife Florence
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