Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private A. C. Houghton, Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action with the 8th Battalion on the “First Day of the Somme”

1914-15 Star (24077 L. Cpl., Yorks L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (24077 Pte., Yorks. L.I.), together with related Memorial Plaque (Allan Charles Houghton), good very fine and better (4) £250-300

Allan Charles Houghton, who was born in Hyde, Cheshire, was killed in action on 1 July 1916, while serving in the 8th Battalion, the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry - his unit sustained total casualties of 539 men. He is buried in the Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuile Wood on the Somme; sold with an informative article copied from The North Cheshire Herald of 12 August 1916.