Fred Houghton
Frederick Houghton was an English semi-professional football left back and left half who played in the Football League for Stockport County.Houghton worked for the Portwood Spinning Company in Stockport. He enlisted in the British Army in 1915 and served in the Cheshire Regiment 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.
