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Son of Joseph and Emma Houghton, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Brother of Pte Tom Hadley Houghton, Regimental number 50765 deceased on 1 October 1918. Brother of Joseph Houghton (MM) who survived the war.
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Niagara on the Lake Cenotaph located on Main Street commemorating the deaths of First and Second World War residents.
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
War Memorial
Submitted by: Operation Picture Me
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH.
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Cap Badge 134th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Private Houghton was originally a member of the 134th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH.
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Casualty Card (front side) for Pte RC Houghton from the archives of the Regimental Museum of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, ON
Submitted by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team
DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Casualty Card (back side) from the archives of the Regimental Museum of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, ON
Submitted by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
"The Hill 70 memorial, erected by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project and the town of Benifontaine, was unveiled and dedicated on 22 September 2012. The memorial commemorates the actions of the 15th Battalion CEF, which was on the extreme left flank of the Canadian assault on Hill 70, on 15 August 1917 and the memory of those members of the Battalion who fell during the engagement. The memorial sits on what was then known as Bois Hugo, which the Battalion assaulted, captured and held against repeated German counterattacks."
Photo submitted by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
Dileas Gu Brath
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Robert Charles Houghton
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Niagara on the Lake Cenotaph located on Main Street commemorating the deaths of First and Second World War residents.
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War Memorial Submitted by: Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Cap Badge 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Shoulder Patch 15th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH.
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Cap Badge 134th Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) CEF. Private Houghton was originally a member of the 134th Bn before being sent to the 15th Bn as a reinforcement. Photo submitted by Captain (retired) Victor Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH.
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Casualty Card (front side) for Pte RC Houghton from the archives of the Regimental Museum of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, ON Submitted by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team DILEAS GU BRATH
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Casualty Card (back side) from the archives of the Regimental Museum of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Toronto, ON Submitted by BGen G. Young 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
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"The Hill 70 memorial, erected by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project and the town of Benifontaine, was unveiled and dedicated on 22 September 2012. The memorial commemorates the actions of the 15th Battalion CEF, which was on the extreme left flank of the Canadian assault on Hill 70, on 15 August 1917 and the memory of those members of the Battalion who fell during the engagement. The memorial sits on what was then known as Bois Hugo, which the Battalion assaulted, captured and held against repeated German counterattacks." Photo submitted by the 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. Dileas Gu Brath
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Page 258 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
On April 3, 2003, the Government of Canada designated April 9th of each year as a national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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