Full name Frederick Houghton Place of death Iraq Team Apps | Place of birth Stockport, England Years Team | |
Date of death 15 November 1918 (aged 28) | ||
Frederick "Fred" Houghton was an English semi-professional football left back and left half who played in the Football League for Stockport County.
Personal life
Houghton worked for the Portwood Spinning Company in Stockport. He served in the Cheshire Regiment of the British Army during the First World War, rising to the appointed rank of lance corporal. He fought during the Mesopotamian Campaign and died of fever on 15 November 1918, just four days after the Armistice. He was buried in the Basra War Cemetery.
References
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