Sergeant William Kibby VC of the 2/48th Battalion. Over the course of a week in October 1942, Kibby performed feats of leadership and bravery that ended with his death at the hands of a German machine-gun crew and in his being awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. A member of Kibby's platoon recalled that 'Kibby's section had been driven to ground scarcely twenty yards in front of a Spandau, which was ripping them to pieces … Kibby saved the bunch of us. We saw him run forward with a grenade in his hand and throw it. Then he disappeared …' In more peaceful times Kibby told friends of his longing to be back home with his wife Sarah Mabel, his two daughters and his garden. Gardening, said Kibby, was ‘the greatest game in the world'. (AWM 061363; photographer James Tait)
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