Tibor was born on 12 April 1920 in Budapest, Hungary to Johann and Ella nee Wiesinger. In early 1939 aged 18, he was given permission to leave Germany and came to England where he was interned before being released as a non alien enemy. He was then sent to live at ‘The Bakery’, The Street in Stroud where he lived with the Wother’s family and trained to be a cowman.

Tibor joined the Pioneer Corps and was sent to an Army camp in Lydbrook, West Dean in Gloucestershire. Tibor was killed on 20 March 1942 in Cinderford and his death certificate states: Shock following intra-abdominal injury and fracture of the right femur caused when a piece of slag weighing 2 cwt rolled down the spoil bank at the Trafalgar Colliery (disused) and struck the deceased man when he and 3 other men were getting cinder from the bottom of the spoil bank.