Six: Captain J. H. Houghton, Royal Army Service Corps, attached Somaliland Scouts

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt., R.A.S.C.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd type, reverse dated ‘1950’, this lacking top brooch bar suspension, very fine and better (6) £180-220

E.D. London Gazette 21 April 1950.

John Hobart Houghton was educated at Cheltenham College; commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in July 1939; Lieutenant, October 1942; Captain, January1946; retired 1956. He was taken prisoner of war during the Second World War whilst serving in North Africa, and held in Camp No. 079 (Braunschweig). Attached to the Somaliland Scouts between November 1950 and December 1953. Sold with some copied research material.