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Surname HOUGHTON
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Albert
Regimental Number 974
RankShoeing Smith
Unit Name 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

Murray: killed in action at Utrecht on 16.10.1901.
Price1: War Memorials Ballarat Canberra Inverleigh (outside Geelong), Sergeant Major.
B5179: born 1873 a groom c/- PO Inverleigh Vic.
Melb. Leader: photo #890.
URL2: photo.
URL5: Fifth VMR Memorial to Fallen Comrades opposite to St. Kilda Barracks ... The following is the list of names appearing on the tablets, together with the addresses, which we have obtained from official sources - Captain J KELLY, Melbourne. Lieutenant SR COULTER, Ballarat. Lieutenant JG CHRISP, Frankston. Lieutenant AG JOHNSTON, Hawthorn. Lieutenant AE MURPHY, Colac. Medical Officer HA PALMER, Ballarat. Sergeant AGK BUCKINGHAM, Yea. Farrier-Sergeant JF HOULIHAN, Collingwood. Corporal RPN ROBERTSON, Portsea. Corporal H HARRISON, Collingwood. Corporal H NEWLANDS, Prahran. Lance-Corporal AE BURLEY, Ballarat. Lance-Corporal HJ BOXALL, Melbourne. Lance-Corporal GR BUTTON, Anakie. Lance-Corporal HC HADLEY, Fitzroy. Lance-Corporal TS ROSS, Williamstown. Shoeing-Smith A HOUGHTON, Inverleigh. Shoeing-Smith AE SPOWART, Dean's Marsh. Shoeing-Smith RM THORNTON, Kilmore. Shoeing-Smith F RANKIN, Police Barracks, Melbourne. Privates SJ BARNARD, North Brunswick; EH BLANDFORD, Bendigo; L BOND, Longwood; FH CAUGHEY, Bairnsdale; J CHARLTON, Euroa; J COLLINS, Mumbannar; J COSTELLO, Dunolly; AB DAVIDSON, Moe; FG DOW, Balaclava; G GLENN, South Melbourne; LJW GOUDIE, St. Kilda; RG HARRISON, Mathoura NSW; WJ HEALEY, Melbourne; HH HENTY, Lyndhurst; HV HEWINS, Brighton; WW JAMES, Nagambie; HS LAMB, Sale; HJ LAWRENCE, North Carlton; AE MACK, Jolimont; TH MAHONEY, Darraweit Guim; J MCCANN, St. Kilda Road; J MCCORKELL, Queensclilf; MT MCDONALD, Yinnar; J MCNALLY, Carapooee; E REISENAUER, Armadale; EJ ROWE, Elsternwick; W SAULTRY, Port Melbourne; WA SMITH, Sutton Grange; GW STRATTON, Mooroopna; R TOPHAM, Yapeen; E VALPIED, Toora; NA WATSON, Pomborneit; J WHELAN, Glenhuntly; JE WHITE, South Melbourne.
URL6: WINCHELSEA.-The memorial which has been erected by the residents of Inverleigh in memory of the late Sergeant-Major A HOUGHTON, of the Fifth Contingent, will be unveiled by Colonel TEMPLETON on Wednesday next [14.5.1902]. In the afternoon a field-firing parade is to be held on the Inverleigh range, which riflemen from all the clubs in No. 4 district have been asked to attend. After the parade the memorial will be unveiled, and in the evening a riflemen's concert will be held, at which a welcome home will be tendered Corporal A CLARKE, who has just returned from South Africa.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 287 337
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 49
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item B
Melb. Leader: Melbourne Leader newspaper date(s) 16.2.1901
Trar.Rcd.: Traralgon Record newspaper date(s) 19.2.1904
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 10.5.1902
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2picasaweb.google.co.uk/boerwarpics/Ozbpics#5465363157880726258
External Link URL3www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/memv0010.php
External Link URL4www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/memv0014.php
External Link URL5nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64161893
External Link URL6nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9065840


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Colin Roe
Canberra

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