Education & Career :

Naughton was a Plantation Manager first at the Ashbourne Tea and Rubber Estates (1912) and then at the Hatduwa Hathmatte Estate (1914) in Sri Lanka.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

At the start of the war it was important to bring Regular Battalions back from their 'Imperial Policing' role in India and the FarEast. These troops were replaced by Territorial and other Garisson troops.

Detail :

2nd Lieutenant Harold Francis Naughton, Indian Reserve of Officers, attached 7Th Hariana Lancers. He died at Secunderabad.

Masonic :

In 1911, he was a 28 year old Planter from Undugoda. "Died on W.S. 10/10/1917." Soldier records show died 10th November and was buried on the 11th.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley