Driver Frederick George Horton

Incident Report

Bushy Park, Teddington

• December 10, 1940
• Osterley Park, Middlesex

Deceased

• Lance Corporal Cyril Bennett Lebbon
• Driver Frederick George Horton
• Lieutenant Kenneth Graham Hope
• Driver Arthur Kitchener Hartland
• Sapper John Robert Darsley

Details

Incident. On the 10th December 1940, at Bushy Park, Teddington a section was working, on an unexploded bomb when it detonated. Sapper J. Darsley aged 19; Driver A.K. Hartland, Lieutenant K.G. Hope, Driver F. Horton RASC and Lance Corporal C. Lebbon aged 43 were all killed and are buried at Teddington Cemetery, Plot S Grave C3.1867 and Plot R Grave C3.1868 It was a cold day and at Osterley Park, the section had adopted the standard practice of lighting a fire and brewing a large Dixie of tea. Sapper Jimmy Hulme had gone to see to the tea when the bomb detonated. He was knocked over by the blast and a piece of shrapnel hit him in the back. He spent some time in hospital and then returned to his unit. After this incident he acquired a slight stammer but was otherwise okay.