Houghton Tom Whitfield 2/Lt

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Surname: Houghton;

Forename(s): Tom Whitfield;

Initials: TW;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Enlistment Date: 01-Dec-1915;

Resided in: Sandbach;

Previous Number: 31631;

Previous Regiment: MGC;

Date of transfer to MGC: 12-Apr-1916;

MGC Branch: Motors;

MGC Unit: 9 LCP;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 113 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 273 Coy;

Date abroad: 19-Jul-1916;

How killed: D;

Where: Syria;

When killed: 21-Apr-1919;

Other Data: b. 1897
of 22 Oldfield Rd, Altrincham - schoolmaster
attested 1/12/1915 - mobilized 6/1/1916 - to SOMLI as Pte No 20305. Transf MGC 12/4/1916. Served Home 1/12/1915- 18/7/1916, BEF (113 Coy MGC) 19/7/1916 - 22/12/1916, Home 27/12/1916 - 22/5/1917 - disch to MGC Motors as T/2Lt
with 273 Coy 31/1/1918 - war diary
Casualty Form: 29/1/1918 dis Alexandria. 13/3/1918 to 6 LCP. 25/3/1918 adm 17 Gen Hosp, Alexandria. 4/4/1918 disch. 31/4/1918 joined 9 LCP
2/3/1919 to 128 CFA colitis. 28/3/1919 dangerously ill - dysentry. 22/4/1919 died of dysentry at Mersina, Turkey in No 15 CCH. Buried Mil Cem Mersina, Grave No 4.
Estate £200/10/6d - grantee Ada Houghton (mother) wife of John Houghton;

Other Notes: HOUGHTON, Second Lieutenant, TOM WHITFIELD, Machine Gun Corps (Motors). Died of heart failure 21st April 1919. Age 22. Son of John and Ada Houghton, of Marsh Green, Elworth, Sandbach, Cheshire. Assistant Schoolmaster at Seaman's Moss School Altrincham. B. 63. Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/77067;

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