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Captain George Houston-Boswall. First World War. Captain Sir George Reginald Houston- Boswall, Bart., 2nd” Coy”. 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. He was a regular soldier and was killed in action in France on 27th September 1915, aged 37. He fell in the attack on the “Chalk Pits” during the Battle of Loos and is commemorated on the Loos ...
George Houston. George Houston was born in Dalry in 1869 and educated at Saltcoats Public School and Glasgow School of Art. He lived most of his life in Dalry painting his native Ayrshire but he also maintained a studio in Glasgow and spent time painting in the Inner Hebrides and around Loch Fyne.
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George Fleming Houston (January 11, 1896 – November 12, 1944) was an American B-western film actor and accomplished singer in the early half of the 20th century. Early life, World War I service. Born and raised in Hampton, New Jersey, his parents were Reverend Thomas Houston, a blind evangelist, [1] and Mrs. Charles Houston.
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The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
Although widely travelled—he was in Japan in 1911—Houston’s work was almost exclusively Scottish in theme, with subjects princi- pally in Ayrshire and the Western Isles. His vision was direct: and simple and was interpreted with a technique baffling in its apparent ease.
