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Military service
Service number:
141692
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
21st Bn.
Birth:
November 25, 1893
Manchester, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
July 27, 1915
Welland, Ontario
Death:
July 7, 1917
Wimereux, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. N. 13.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
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Photo of ERNEST HOUGHTON
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Wimereux Communal Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Family Memorial
Inscription to the memory of Lance Corporal ERNEST HOUGHTON on the family grave marker in the cemetery of St. Davids-Queenston, United Church, St. Davids, Ontario . He was killed on July 7, 1917 and is buried at WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. -
War Memorial
Niagara Township, Ontario -
Inscription
Niagara Township, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Ernest Houghton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 258 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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