John Edward Hordell

This photo is shared by the Trust with kind permission from Jeff Hewitt, 46 Royal Marine Commando Family and Friends Group

Remembering Marine John Hordell, B Troop, 46 (Royal Marine) Commando, injured near Rots, Calvados, Normandy on the 11 June 1944 and succumbed to his wounds on 20 June 1944. It is very likely that he died at the casualty clearing station set up in a large domestic property basement in Sallenelles which was in the area where the whole of 46 Commando moved too following the liberation of Rots.  He was first buried at Graye-sur-Mer and then reinterred in Bayeux War Cemetery on the 11 December 1944.

John's name is engraved on the memorial erected in Rots by the commune in remembrance of the 22 men who gave their lives liberating their village.