The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J S Houghton

Private John Sidney HOUGHTON, 8465, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th October 1916, age 26.

30th December 1888, born Bethnal Green, London, son of James & Elizabeth Houghton, of 38, Princes St., Deptford, London.

1911 Census - 51 Engleheart Road, Catford - John Houghton, head, age 56, married, bricklayers labourer, builder, worker, born Bethnal Green, London; Liza Houghton, wife, age 56, married 40 years, 11 children, 8 still alive, born Mile End, Old Town, London; John Houghton, son, age 22, single, bricklayers labourer, builder, worker, born Mile End, Old Town, London; Clara Houghton, daughter, age 17, single, domestic, born Mile End, Old Town, London; James Higgins, age 13, school, born Catford, London.

20th October 1912, St Mary, Lewisham, John Sidney Houghton, age 23, bachelor, labourer, 51 Engleheart Road, Catford, father James Houghton, labourer, married Eliza Maria Whitfield, age 19, spinster, 45 Ladywell Park, father Edward Whitfield, labourer.

Children - Ethel Maud Houghton, born 31st December 1912, Lewisham; John Sidney Houghton, born 13th January 1915, Lewisham

Enlisted Lewisham, SE. Resided 96, Brookdale Road, Catford, London.

Widow - Mrs E. M. Woodward, (formerly Houghton), remarried 1919 June, Lewisham Registration District to George Woodward.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.

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