🌺 “Killed Going Forward Under Machine-Gun Fire” — Sub-Lieutenant Harold Willis Troughton, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 🌺 Harold Willis Troughton was 30 years old when he was killed during the Battle of the Ancre on 13 November 1916, in the closing phase of the Somme offensive. He was the son of Charles Willis Troughton and Catherine Elizabeth Troughton, of Hanover Court, Hanover Square, London, and had been born in 1886. Before the war, Harold lived a thoroughly civilian life. He was educated