Corporal Laurence Douglas Livingstone Houghton, one of the four New Zealanders who, according to a telegraph message published yesterday, has been posthumously mentioned in despatches, was born in Dunedin and resided at 25 Evans street, Opoho. He went overseas with the Second Echelon, and served in Greece and Crete. In Crete he assisted several captured soldiers to escape, but was finally captured by the Germans. He was shot while trying to make his own escape, and died on March 5, 1942. The message wrongly stated that Corporal Houghton came from Christchurch. -Evening Star, 17/3/1944.
Laurence Houghton's entry in the "Online Cenotaph" states that he lies in the Phaleron War Cemetery at Athens.
Green Island Memorial Rose Garden.
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