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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 29284" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Houghton </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Robert Dyer (Titch) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>R.M. 40 Commando (Commanding Officer) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant Colonel </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Officer of the Order of the British Empire </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Palestine 1949 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 7.3.1912</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father John Mayo Houghton (1870-1947)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Lucy Evelyn (nee Trotman) Houghton (1872-1969)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Haileybury School</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>commissioned R.M. 1930</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>HMS Malaya</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>15 M.G. Bn RM</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1 Bn RM 1939-41</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Holding Operational Commando</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>A Commando January 1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW 19.8.1942 Dieppe</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.C.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>45 Commando (C.O.) 1945</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>graduated Army Staff College, Camberley 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>40 Commando (C.O.) 1946-48</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded O.B.E. 1949</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Intelligence Officer to C-in-C South Atlantic</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commando School (C.O.)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.O. RM Reserves</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>C.O. 3 Commando Brigade (Colonel) 1957</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major General 1961</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief of Amphibious Warfare</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Major General Royal Marines, Portsmouth</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired 1964</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded C.B. 1964</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines 1973-76</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Deputy Lieutenant of East Sussex 1977</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Dorothy Uladh (nee Lyons) 1940 (1912-1995) (3 children)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 17.1.2011 (Aged 98)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>funeral in Laughton, Lewes, Sussex </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>All Saints Churchyard, Laughton, East Sussex, UK</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>London Gazette 38508, 7th January 1949, Page 189 (OBE)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-houghton.11625/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/custom_thumbnail/11/11625-08291cb5c396540f81d13d40de22ba4f.jpg?1666039986" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-houghton-grave.37697/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37697-c8250c5768fbf3ca194c57c2fb10ee97.jpg?1666040629" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/r-houghton-mc-citation.37719/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37719-d090b645a4cd7d5ee64bb8caddca09c4.jpg?1666202030" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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