Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Arthur William Tibbs

British Army 1st Btn. Royal Norfolk Regiment

(d.4th Aug 1944)

Billy Tibbs is the soldier in a steel helmet, constantly shown in film of the D-Day landings, quietly looking around as his landing craft approached the beach. He landed on Queen Red sector of Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th of June 1944. He survived D-Day but was killed by a sniper on 4th of August 1944 in the Battle for Caen, nine days after his 21st birthday. He is buried in St Charles de Percy War Cemetery.



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