Walter Gervase TIBBITS ¹

  General Notes:

Name: TIBBITS, WALTER GERVASE
Initials: W G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Flying Officer
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Unit Text: 149 Sqdn.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 25/02/1944
Service No: 138069
Additional information: Son of Walter and Bertha Tibbits; husband of Nancie Goucher Tibbits, of Tonbridge, Kent.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 209.
Cemetery: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL

Walter Tibbits was killed during a raid on the night of 25th February 1944. He was one of the crew of a Stirling bomber of 149 Squadron RAF based at RAF Lakenheath in Norfolk. Stirling bombers were involved in mine laying over Kiel that night. Two Stirlings failed to return. The 25th February 1944 was the night after a new moon, a dark night, and a mid-air collision cannot be ruled out.

Walter married Nancy Goucher WILLIAMS, daughter of Frederick WILLIAMS and Mary TAYLOR, Est 1943.