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Pte. John Henry Houghton MM.
British Army 7th Battalion King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Canterbury Street, Liverpool
John Houghton is my grandad who I sadly never got to meet. He was wounded and sent back home to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. He received a gun shot wound to his left hand. He was 19 when he signed up on the 6th December 1915.
We have some copies of his service record but they don't give much detail of where he was sent during the war but we know he was in the trenches because he was reprimanded on 4/5/1917 for not having the proper equipment and boots and the trenches are mentioned in the offence report. He was admitted to hospital on the 15/10/1918 and stayed there till 31/12/1918 with the gun shot wound to his hand. He was awarded the Military Medal on the 14/09/1918.
