Trooper Martine E Tyson

Martine Edward Tyson, son of Edward and Gracia Tyson of Ambleside, Westmorland, enlisted into The Royal Amoured Corps and volunteered for airborne forces.

Trooper Tyson successfully completed his Glider training and was posted to 6th Airborne, Armoured Recce Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. At some stage he volunteered for the Special Air Service and successfully completed his parachute training on course 103 at RAF Ringway on 15 to 28 February 1944. His course reported stated ‘Good performer after initial nervousness’. He was posted to 2 SAS Regiment.

Trp Tyson took part in the Normandy landings and later operation Varsity. He was killed in a brief contact with German troops on 16 April 1945 whilst part of a jeep based party under Major Henry Druce, on Op Keystone, advancing north through Holland (Stirling’s Men, by Gavin Mortimer) aged 22.  He was given a field burial bedside the road and re-interred to Jonkerbos War Cemetery on 10 June 1947. 

Profile photo courtesy of Peter M Tyson (Nephew)