Age: 28
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Jan 1945
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Albert Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Horace Beresford Gordon murdered Dorothy May Hillman 18 who he stabbed to death on the Bramley to Horsham road on 7 September 1944.
He was a Jamaican soldier in the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corp.
see National Archives - ASSI 36/65
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 09 January 1945
