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Private SAMUEL HOUGHTON

Service Number: 4987203
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 26 May 1942

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIRKSWORTH CEMETERY

Grave 2224.

United Kingdom

Houghton S Wirksworth Cemetery 05944 Visit 11.12.21 No Issues - clean planned but awaiting warmer weather.

Photographer: Mark Slack

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Elizabeth Houghton, of Wirksworth.
  • Personal Inscription FOR YE ARE DEAD, AND YOUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD COL.III.3
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Buried or commemorated at

WIRKSWORTH CEMETERY
Derbyshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 8
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