Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Archive Houghton was appointed as a

Houghton was appointed as a Naval Cadet in January 1913 and served at the Royal Naval College of Canada in Halifax

Commander's Neck Badge - in silver gilt and enamels

over top of a Russian Orthodox-style cross and imperial crown

National Defense Medal with one bronze Oak Leaf Cluster

measuring 105 mm (w) x 129 mm (h)

Germany, Third Reich. An Academy Mess Hall Silver Salad Fork Archive Houghton was appointed as a(Salatgabel). Constructed of silver, featuring four sharpened prongs in barb shape, the obverse plain, the reverse stamped with a NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, above an unidentified academy insignia, with a silver mark of WMF 90 2,5 indicating German manufacture, measuring 46 mm (w) x 195 mm (l), weighing 57. 0 grams, in extremely fine condition.