11 February 2010

318096 Sgt Thomas Tighe, 9th Bn, KOYLI

318096 Sergeant Thomas Tighe of the 9th (The Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons) Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on the 11th February 1944. He was 23 years old and the son of Brian Joseph and Emily Amelia Tighe of Goole, Yorkshire. He is buried in the El Alia cemetery in Algeria.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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