Army Number: 2719874 Rank: Guardsman Name: W HOUGHTON Unit: 1 Irish Guards Theatre: Italy Missing Personnel file: 1st Battalion IRISH GUARDS - Italy, Missing Personnel file TNA Reference: WO 361/784 Notes: Date of Payment 7 January 1944, 400 Local Currency, E Coy. 3 C.R.U. Missing 9 February 1944
Casualty Guardsman HOUGHTON, WILLIAM ARTHUR Service Number 2719874 Died Between 08/02/1944 and 09/02/1944 Aged 24 1st Bn. Irish Guards Son of Arthur Houghton, and of Ethel Houghton, of Ravenhead, Lancashire. Commemorated at CASSINO MEMORIAL Location: Italy Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 4. See cemetery plan