B636566 Norman A. Tims was born circa 1919.

He enlisted in The Queen’s Own Rifles in June 1940 as one of the original “potato sackers”. He served in Newfoundland, Sussex, NB and England.

Tims landed with Headquarters Company of the 1st Bn on D-Day and served throughout the Normandy and Channel ports without a wound. He was made Company Quarter Master Sergeant before the end of World War II and served in the Rhineland Campaign and in Holland before returning to Canada in late 1945.

Tims also served in the militia postwar,1946-47. He married Evelyn in 1950.

He died on 2 November 2002 in Scarborough, Ontario.