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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 224

Four: Private J. Houghton, Army Cyclist Corps, Later Police Constable, Liverpool City Police
British War and Victory Medals (18190 Pte. J. Houghton. A. Cyc. Corps.); Liverpool City Police Good Service Medal, silver, with 'Service Over 30 Years' clasp, reverse engraved 'Presented by Watch Committee To Con. 223.E. J. Houghton 15-9-44'; Liverpool City Police Good Service Medal, bronze, no clasp, reverse engraved 'Presented by Watch Committee 15th. Sept. 1939.', edge engraved 'Con: 223 "E" John Houghton.', good very fine or better, both Police awards with integral top riband brooch bars, together with the recipient's St. John Ambulance Association Medallion, bronze, the reverse engraved '317220 John Houghton', in named card box of issue; registered addressed envelope for the Great War medals, addressed to Mr. J. Houghton, 3 Guildhall Road, Aintree, Liverpool; and a quantity of various dated original hand-written letters from circa 1919 addressed to the recipient and his wife at 45 Rufford Road, Crossens, Southport, Lancashire (5)

18190 Private John Houghton, born St. Helens, Lancashire, 1891; enlisted in the Army Cyclist Corps, 4.2.1916, and served with the 2/1 West Lancashire Divisional Company, Army Cyclist Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 16.3.1917; Wounded in Action by gunshot and shrapnel wounds to legs and feet; 29.10.1918; discharged, 28.2.1919.

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