TUNNA, Norman  
 
PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Tunna, Norman
Date of birth:  April 29th, 1908 (Birkenhead, Cheshire, Great Britain)
Date of death:  December 4th, 1970 (Birkenhead, Cheshire, Great Britain)
Nationality:  British
     
GEORGE CROSS
Rank: Locomotive Shunter
Unit: Great Western Railway
Action: Received his George Cross for his rescue of a train full of explosives which was hit during a bomber attack in Morpeth Dock, Cheshire on the 26th. September 1940.
Details: Date of Gazette 24 January 1941.
On 15 November 1982 at Liverpool Lime Street Station a diesel locomotive was named "Norman Tunna, GC".
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - George Cross Database
   
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