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PRIVATE
FIRST CLASS HARRY J. DOUGHTY was born in the Westmont
section of Haddon Township, New Jersey on March 12, 1893. He was raised
by his widowed grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Jack on Cuthbert Road in Haddon
Township.
When
Harry J. Doughty registered for the
draft on June 5, 1917 he was living in Palmyra, New Jersey. He was then working as a
trolley car motorman for the Southern Pennsylvania Traction Company in
Chester, Pennsylvania. Harry Doughty was single at that time, and had not married when
he was called up
in June of 1918 at Beverly, New Jersey.
Harry
J. Doughty
was inducted into the United States Army in Beverly, New Jersey on June
27, 1918. Initially assigned to the 153 Depot Brigade at Camp Dix,
Private Doughty served with the 312th Ammunition Train from July 18 to
August 10, 1918. He was returned to the 153 Depot Brigade little more
than a week, then transferred to Company D, 31st Battalion of U.S.
Guards. The United States Guards were a formation of the
United States Army created to guard strategic installations and
areas in order to free infantry regiments for war service during World
War I. The Guards were created on 22 December 1917 and were controlled
by the Chief of the Militia Bureau. They eventually comprised 48
battalions of men who were either too old or physically unfit for active
service. Private
Harry J. Doughty was sent to camp Ethan Allen in Vermont to join his new
unit. He was promoted to Private First Class on August 29, 1918.
Private
Doughty became a victim of the Spanish Flu pandemic that reached America
in the fall of 1918. He died of pneumonia at Camp Ethan Allen on October
17, 1918. Funeral
services were held for Private First Class Doughty at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Jack, 310 Cuthbert Avenue, Haddon Township,
New Jersey.
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