HORTON, Vincent Kemmell
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Known as:
Vince
Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
48RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
PO/X100099
Born:
1921
Birthplace:
Rochford, Essex
Died :
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Place died or last resided:
Hampshire
Age:
95
Served with the 11th RM Battalion at Tobruk in 1942. Captured by the Germans and handed over to the Italians. Later released in Italy during a prisoner exchange. Posted M.N.B.D.O.1 and again taken prisoner during operations at Crete but escaped from the island to freedom.
Marine Vince Horton, HQ Troop 48RM Commando was seriously wounded (amputations legs, gunshot wound left thigh, fracture left arm) 15 June 1944 Normandy.
Marine Horton, Marine Officers Attendant to Captain Flunder, had stepped on an anti-personnel mine. Taken to a field hospital near the beaches at Ouistreham it was impossible to evacuate him for several days due to storms in the Channel. Medics managed to save his right leg above the knee but he lost the whole of his left leg which had developed gangrene.
Post war member of the Royal Marines Association from Fareham, Portsmouth.
Sources
RN Casualty Logs 1939-45.
Ken Ford, DDay Commando (From Normandy to the Maas), pp.14,93,96.
Govt. Probate Death Index, Winchester Registry, probate date 9/8/2017.
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