Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Able Seaman G. Houghton, Royal Navy, killed when H.M.S. Hampshire was mined and sunk on 5 June 1916
Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (223670 A.B., H.M.S. Odin); 1914-15 Star (223670 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (223670 A.B., R.N.); Memorial Plaque (George Laurenson Houghton) this last in card envelope

Three: Able Seaman T. Houghton, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, killed in action, Gallipoli, 5 May 1915
1914-15 Star (MZ-245 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (M.Z.245 A.B., R.N.V.R.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Houghton) this last in card envelope, good very fine (9) £600-700

George Houghton was born in Liverpool on 13 May 1885. A Porter by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on Northampton on 4 November 1902, being advanced to Boy 1st Class in February 1903. He was promoted to Ordinary Seaman in May 1903 when on Victory and to Able Seaman in March 1905 when again on that ship. He served on the armoured cruiser Hampshire from January 1914. He was killed when the cruiser was mined and sunk on 5 June 1916. The ship was en route to Russia carrying the Secretary of State for War, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener when she struck a mine 1.5 miles off the Brough of Birsey, Orkney Islands. Kitchener and all his staff perished. Of the 600 plus men on board only 12 survived. With copied service paper.

Thomas Houghton was born on 21 October 1893. A Steward by occupation, he joined the R.N.V.R. on 16 October 1914. He was killed in action on 5 May 1915 when serving with the Royal Naval Division in Gallipoli. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. With copied service papers.