Lieutenant Thomas Greenwood Haughton

In Memory of

Lieutenant Thomas Greenwood Haughton

12th Bn Royal Irish Rifles

who died
on 1st July 1916, aged 25


Remembered with honour

HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL

Son of Thomas Wilfred and Catherine Isabel Haughton, of Hillmount, Cullybackey, Co. Antrim.

The Ballymena Observer of 7th July 1916 reported: Mr. T. G. Haughton, JP, Hillmount, Cullybackey, yesterday received the sad official information that his youngest son, Lt. Thomas Greenwood Haughton, 12th Royal Irish Rifles had been killed on 1st July. Mr. Haughton, who was 25 years of age, was educated at Edgbaston Prep. School, Birmingham and at St. Edmond’s School, Oxford. He had been a popular and enthusiastic officer in connection with the Ulster Volunteers and was commander of E Coy. 1st Btn. North Antrim Regt.

When war broke out he offered his services, securing a commission in the Central Antrim’s 12th Royal Irish Rifles going to the front in October 1915. At his coming of age on 2nd June 1912 the employees of the family firm, Messrs. Frazer and Haughton, Cullybackey, made him a presentation of a gold watch and chain as a token of the respect in which he was held.