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242411Pte. Keith Thomas Johnson
Australian Imperial Force D Coy. 24th Battalion
from:Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Keith Johnson joined the AIF in July 1915 one week after his 17th Birthday. He boarded the Osterley in Melbourne Australia and met up with the 24th Battalion in Egypt after they had evacuated from Gallipoli. Pte Johnson then went to France where he was in the trenches at Armentieries before moving to Pozieres.
On 29th of July 1916 Pte Johnson received a shell wound to the leg, he was transported to a Casualty Clearing Station and then to the British 26 General Hospital in Etaples where his leg was amputated 4 inches below the knee. Pte Johnson was then transported to Calais and boarded the HS Newhaven and admitted to Egginton Hall Hospital for recuperation. He underwent another two operations where his stump was further shortened to above the knee. He was then transported to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hosptial.
340Capt. L. V. B. Johnson
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
213871Cpl. Norris Riddley Johnson
British Army 24th Btn. (2nd Sportsman's) London Regiment
from:Wark-on-Tyne
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Norris Riddley Johnson was killed in action in France and Flanders and is Remembered at Thiepval Memorial. He was born and bought up at Wark on Tyne, Bellingham, Northumberland, the son of John and Isabella Johnson. From information from family now passed on he was possibly known for his sporting achievements.
245616L/Cpl. Percy Richard Johnson
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:London
(d.19th Apr 1918)
Dick Johnson served with the 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
247819Percy Johnson
British Army Duke of Wellington's Regiment
249539Pte. Percy Johnson
British Army 9th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Luddendon, Halifax, Yorkshire
(d.26th Apr 1918)
253370Drmr. Percy Johnson
British Army 22nd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.12th Dec 1916)
Percy Johnson was my great uncle and a bugler in the Great War. I have a small autograph-type book which contains several poems written by Percy after he enlisted in 1915, some of which were written at the front. Percy was killed in action a year after enlisting and is buried at Redan Ridge Cemetery No.1, near Beaumont-Hamel.
342Rgmtl Qtrmtr Sjt. R. E. Johnson
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
232715Pte. R. Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
R Johnson was wounded in March 1916
2576812Lt. Ramsey Gelling Johnson
British Army 161st Brigade, B Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Douglas, Isle of Man
Ramsey Gelling Johnson was a qualified advocate who responded to the call for volunteers. He enlisted as a private in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in November 1915. In April 1917 he joined the 161st (Yorks) Brigade, RFA in France as 2nd Lieutenant and was allocated to B Battery. He served with B/161 until the end of the war. He served at Messines and Passchendaele. An Inns of Court Officer.
232716Pte. Richard Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Durham City
Richard Johnson was discharged in 1918 after suffering Trenchfoot
259210Pte. Richard Alfred Johnson
British Army 2nd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Kent
(d.8th Nov 1918)
Richard Johnson was buried at the Nowshera Military Cemetery, now in Pakistan and is remembered on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate). I am researching the Verinder surname and I know about Richard because his mother's maiden name was Verinder.
239628Pte. Robert Ellis Johnson
British Army 1/5th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:14 Castle Dyke Street, Flint, Flintshire, North Wales
(d.22nd Sep 1915)
My Great Uncle, Robert Johnson was killed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey on 22nd of Sepetmber 1915.
232717Pte. S. Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Chopwell
239692Pte. Sydney Johnson
British Army Army Service Corps
232718Pte. T. W Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Durham City
232719Sgt. Thomas Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Durham City
300140Pte. Thomas Johnson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
300144Pte. Thomas Johnson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
224556Thomas James Johnson MC & bar.
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Cardiff
My great uncle, Thomas Johnson joined up as a boy soldier in the Somerset Light Infantry. He won a MC at Mons in 1914 then another (his bar) in 1917. He survived the war and went on to fight on the home front as a training officer in WW2. If anybody has any information please get in touch.
233701Pte. Thomas Johnson
British Army 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards
(d.13th April 1918)
Thomas Johnson was born in Black Bourton, Clanfield, Oxfordshire in 1893. He was the son of Thomas and Ester. In 1915 he worked as a railway porter for the London and South Western Railway at Templecombe. He was 6 foot 1 1/2 according to records.
He married Violet Kate Burrows on 17th March 1917. She was originally from Gloucestershire but they met in Black Bourton when she worked as a domestic servant.
Five days after their marriage Thomas was released for military service from the railway. On 25th December 1917 their son Thomas Henry was born. On 13th April 1918 Thomas was listed as missing presumed killed in action. His name is on the Victory Arch at Waterloo Station.
253804Cpl. Tom Johnson
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Darlington
(d.27th Mar 1918)
341Lt. W. Johnson
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
232720Pte. W. Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
W Johnson was a Bayonetman in the trench raid on the night of the 25th-26th of June 1916.
232721Pte. W. F Johnson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
W Johnson was wounded in July 1916
219306Bmbdr. Wallace Johnson
British Army 289th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Margate, Kent
(d.8th Jul 1917)
Wallace Johnson is commemorated on a family grave cross in Hull Western Cemetery. In 1877 he was born at Howden, Yorkshire and later moved to Margate, Kent where he was teaching at the "Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor" in 1901. Before the the outbreak of the Great War he had married and had two daughters. He enlisted at Margate in 1915 and served with the 289th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed in action on 8th July 1917. His body was interred in the Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension in Belgium.
242262Walter James Johnson
Royal Garrison Artillery
253512Cpl. Walter Johnson
British Army 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:South Hiendley, Yorkshire
(d.4th Oct 1917)
Walter Johnson served with the 9th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
737Sjt. Mjr. William Northcroft Johnson
Army 6th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Essex
William Johnson was badly wounded at Gallipoli, having landed tehre on teh 11th of August 1915 with the 6th Essex. His name is listed amongst the wounded published in the Essex Chronicle on the 17th of Sept 1915. He was evacuated to Alexandria. He is mentioned in a letter from Sergt. Jack Brady of the 1/6th Essex Regiment, sent from Alexandria in 1916 “The ex-hospital men here (several of whom are Essex) are improving in health wonderfully, and some are quite well again. Sergt-Major Johnson, who did such good work on the Peninsula, where he was severely wounded, is looking well in the circumstances, and after the day's duties are finished he keeps the boys alive with a ventriloquial entertainment, and as a ventriloquist he is excellent.†William later served as CSM with an employment company of the Northamptonshire Regiment and on the 30th of May 1917 he was commissioned as Temp. 2nd Lt. into the Labour Corps and commanded and Area Employment Company as Acting Captain on the 11th of May 1918.
1183Cpl. William Johnson
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.11th Feb 1915)
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