On 9 August 1944 50 Div. Signals HQ were hit by an artillery concentration which left dead and wounded. Three of the casualties are at Tilly-Sur-Seulles War Cemetary. View attachment 46134 Driver MAURICE TOWERS 2574992, 50th Div. Sigs., Royal Corps of Signals who died age 24 on 11 August 1944 Son of Henry and Harriet Towers; husband of Lilian Towers, of Bridgwater, Somerset. </SPAN> “Yes, I was a few miles in front with part of H section, sat in a field holding one of the half-track brens on about 50 prisoners who were being interrogated. We probably heard the shells go over. When I got back to the vehicle word had come through HQ had taken a pasting! ‘Mot’ Towers, he was always known as ‘Mot’ was a year above me at school. His brother Stan was in my class, he was with HQ as well. ‘Mot’ got married to a girl from Bridgewater while we were there. He played piano in the pub. A pint would last him all night and we would help him out with the free beers that got lined up on top of the old jo-anna. He died of wounds in hospital. Arthur Ridley was one of those wounded and he told me after the War that ‘Mot’ gave up in hospital, he had had enough!” Dad recently gave a copy of the photo of Maurice Towers’ headstone to his nephew. None of the family had ever been able to visit the grave. View attachment 46135 Serjeant CECIL WOODWARD WRIGHT</SPAN> 2588097, 50th Div. Sigs., Royal Corps of Signals who died age 29 on 09 August 1944</SPAN> Son of Henry Herbert and Evelyn Bertha Wright, of Nunthorpe, Yorkshire.</SPAN> “Cec Wright worked in a garage in Barnard Castle. Him and his boss joined the TA, a bloke called Bowman I think. He went off to Officer Training and left Cec with us. He was a hell of a good vehicle fitter was Cec. I didn’t know he had been made a sergeant until we went back to France and I saw the grave” Also buried at Tilly is George Lowes killed in the same incident. Serjeant GEORGE LOWES </SPAN> 2574936, 50th Div. Sigs., Royal Corps of Signals who died age 32 on 09 August 1944 </SPAN></SPAN>
