Welcome to GeorgeKeen.info - published in memory of George Keen1 who, along with others, attended to a number of burning munitions trucks bombed by the Luftwaffe August 1940 in Tongham, Surrey.
The night of August 22 1940, George Leach was at home. It was nearing midnight when he heard the bombers overhead, then a deafening explosion. George Keen, George Leach and those gathered to help, including members of the Fire Services, Home Guard, and soldiers attached to a Salvage Unit nearby, placed themselves in great danger averting a certain catastrophe, preventing untold damage, 
On 15 November 1940 the London Gazette announced that George Frederick William Keen and George Henry Leach were to be awarded the George Medal, stating: Both men acted quite regardless of their own safety and at very considerable personal risk. George Keen and George Leach were as a matter of fact the very first working for the railway to be awarded the George Medal.
