Incident on D Day A corporal in the Royal Marines who, by hanging over the si,cm O l: his ship and guiding the rudder with his foot, steered his damaged asreult crim for 14 miles on D Day through shellfire, mines and beach obstacles while waves threatened to tear film from his precarious handhold, has been award rd Hu- Distinguished Service Medal states the i >ondon < lazette " Tin- cor.' petal was George Erne t. Tandy, trgety 19. He was coxswain of an assault craft, and succeeded in beaching hi,-, craft at exactly the correct spot.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22991, 7 September 1944, Page 5
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