Date: 05/12/2012
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Captain Joseph Houghton MC, No.2 Commando executed 23 Oct'42
One of the seven Men of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon, and later executed under Hitler's Commando Execution Order, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, 1942. There is a photo in the CVA Memorials and Plaques Album of the Memorial Plaque at Sachsenhausen to these and other men who were executed there
In Memory of 130206 Captain Joseph Blundell Johnson Houghton MC
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and No. 2 Commando
who died on 23 October 1942 age 31
Remembered with honour at the Brookwood Memorial