Remembering World War II

Name: John Jacob Tynes Rank: Sapper Service No.: F/66599 Service: 5th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers Date of Birth: January 26, 1914 Place of Birth: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: August 24, 1942 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, NS Age at Enlistment: 28 Address at Enlistment: 113 Commercial St, Dartmouth, NS Height: 6 feet, 1 ¼ inches Complexion: Black Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Marital Status: Single Next of Kin: Elizabeth Tyler (mother) Religion: Baptist Trade: Storeman Date of Death: June 10, 1944 Age: 31 Cemetery: Brookwood Military Cemetery, England Grave: 50. C. 7. Commemorated on Page 466 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 6 John ‘Jack’ Jacob Tynes was the son of Jacob (1866-1929) and Elizabeth Alberta (Stewart) Tynes (1876- 1958), of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and the brother of Robert James Tynes (1905-1952), Rupert George Tynes (1911-1947), Elizabeth (Tynes) Beals (1907-1959), Florence May Tynes (1909-1940), and Margaret T. Beals (b. 1918). Jack had worked for 6 years as a labourer with the Escanarden Coal Company in Halifax, NS prior to the war. Jack trained at Camp 60 (Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre No. 60) in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and then at Petawawa in Ontario. He was granted embarkation leave June 11 to 16, 1943, before proceeding overseas to Europe. He departed Canada in mid-July, disembarking in the UK on July 22, 1943. The 5th Field Company of the Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) in which Jack served, attached to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, landed at Bernières-sur-mer in Normandy, France (Juno Beach) on D-Day June 6, 1944. The RCE component was assigned many tasks on D-Day and landed according to the demands of those tasks. First on the beach was the 5th Field Company with a platoon of the 18th Field Co. under command. Their task was to clear the beach, anti-landing obstacles including those underwater. AVREs (Armored Vehicles, Royal Engineers) of the 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers and tanks of the Royal Marines were in support of the 5th Field Company along with other supporting Royal Engineer heavy equipment specialists. The goal was to clear four landing zones on the beach in less than an hour. They suffered casualties from two 50mm antitank guns within the Bernières strongpoint before the infantry captured the guns. Jack was wounded on June 6th and was evacuated to England. He died of his wounds on June 10, 1944. Sapper John Jacob Tynes is interred at the largest Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in the United Kingdom, the Brookwood Military Cemetery in England. His family chose the personal inscription for the grave, "I am the resurrection, and the life: He that believeth in me… Shall Live".

John Jacob Tynes

Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Canadian Virtual War Memorial findagrave