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Corporal Charles Edward Houston

 

Houston

 

Corporal Charles Edward Houston, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Service No. 40645. Formerly North Irish Horse, Service No. 1767. Born Belfast, County Antrim. Enlisted Antrim. Residence Belfast. Son of Thomas and Sarah Houston of Doagh Road, Whitehouse, Belfast. Killed in action on 2 October 1918, aged 24. Buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.B.15. The gravestone inscription reads:

40645 CORPORAL

C. E. HOUSTON

ROYAL INNISKILLING FUS.

2ND OCTOBER 1918 AGE 24

THE LORD HATH GIVEN

AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY

UNTIL THE DAY DAWN

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.