Name
Samuel George William Houghton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
8398
Suffolk Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION
II. H. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Cambridge and enlisted there.
Wartime Service
Samuel was given Regimental Number 8398 and served with the 12th Battalion of the Suffolks which was part of the 121st Brigade, 40th Division, XV Corps in the 1st Army. He was badly wounded, captured by the Germans during their advance and died of his injuries.
The Division had been flung in to stem the tide of the German attack at noon on the 12th April 1918. This was in the Battle of Hazebrouck when the German Spring Offensive was in full flood.
He was buried in Plot 2, Row H, Grave 7 of the Tournai Communal Cemetery, Allied Extension in Belgium. The cemetery is some forty miles east of Hazebrouck.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
