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V-1 hit on Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, St James’s Park, 18 June 1944

Links

• Anna Maria Ruggiero, Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks 18 June 1944 at westendatwar.org.uk
• * Guards Chapel bombed by V1 on Sunday, 18 June 1944 at flyingbombsandrockets.com
• Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks; “Constructed between 1839–40 in the style of a Grecian temple and restored in the 1870s, the chapel was damaged by German bombing during the Blitz in 1940/1941... On Sunday 18 June 1944 the chapel was hit again, this time by a V1 during the morning service. The explosion of the V1 collapsed the concrete roof onto the congregation, with 121 killed and 141 injured persons (military and civilians).”
• V-1 flying bomb: This was first launched against England on 13 June 1944.

Notable victims

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Murray Cobbold, Scots Guards, born 1897, known as Ivan. Son of John Dupuis Cobbold DL and of Lady Evelyn Cobbold, and husband of Lady Blanche Cobbold DL, Sheriff of Suffolk, second daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, whose sister, Lady Dorothy, was married to Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), later Prime Minister
• Evelyn Gordon-Lennox, Lady Bernard Gordon-Lennox, of Chelsea, daughter of Lord Loch of Drylaw, widow of Major Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox, mother of Lieutenant-General Sir George Gordon-Lennox (1908–1988)
• Colonel Gustav B. Guenther, US Army, born 1896, a friend of Eisenhower, sometime US military attaché to Estonia and head of OSS operations in Cairo, in 1944 an officer of the US Army's psychological warfare branch based in London. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
• Colonel Lord Edward Douglas John Hay, commanding officer the Grenadier Guards, born 1888. Son of William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, husband of Audrey Hay (Lady Edward Hay), daughter of Sir Thomas Latham, 1st Baronet, and brother and heir-presumptive of the 11th Marquess of Tweeddale. He served at the Peace Conference, Paris, 1918-1919 and on Special Missions to Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania; Military Secretary to Sir Herbert Samuel as High Commissioner in Palestine, 1921-1923. He was walking back to his seat after reading the lesson when the bomb exploded.