Site Home
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Great War Home
Search
Add Stories & Photos
Library
Help & FAQs
Features
Allied Army
Day by Day
RFC & RAF
Prisoners of War
War at Sea
Training for War
The Battles
Those Who Served
Hospitals
Civilian Service
Women at War
The War Effort
Central Powers Army
Central Powers Navy
Imperial Air Service
Library
World War Two
Submissions
Add Stories & Photos
Time Capsule
Information
Help & FAQs
Glossary
Our Facebook Page
Volunteering
News
Events
Contact us
Great War Books
About
242769Bdr. Albert Bertram Johnson
British Army 63rd Brigade, C Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Peterborough
My paternal grandfather, Albert Bertram Johnson was born in Peterborough on the 15th November 1886 to William and Elizabeth Jane Johnson.
He worked on the railways before enlisting on 8th August 1914 as one of Kitchener's New Army. He joined the Royal Artillery 63rd Brigade C Bty., part of the 12th Eastern Division and was posted to France on the 1st June 1915. He spent the majority of the war years in France, fighting in the first and second battles of Ypres. He was wounded in action on the 4th May 1917 but no details noted on his record.
He contracted influenza in July 1918 and was admitted to Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester on the 1st August 1918 from Number 11 Stationary Hospital at Rouen. On the 17th August 1918, he was admitted to a convalescent hospital at Eastbourne, possibly Summerdown. He was discharged on the 7th December 1918 and returned to his Unit on the 16th December 1918.On the 3rd February 1919 he was sent to a dispersal centre and on the 5th March 1919 he was transferred to Class Z Army Reserve. He was demobbed on the 31st March 1920 and his address was given as 116 GN Cottages, New England, Peterborough, He was 31.
He had married Rose Hannah Webb on the 5th November 1917 at Northampton. They had two children, Bertram Walter born on the 4th April 1920 and Muriel born 1924. He returned to work on the railways at Peterborough as a shunter but was tragically killed in a shunting accident at the East Station, Peterborough on the 5th November 1929, his 12th wedding anniversary.
Related Content:
Can you help us to add to our records?
The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them
Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial?
If so please let us know.
Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?"We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember.
Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.
Celebrate your own Family History
Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.
Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.
This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Hosted by:
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
- All Rights Reserved -We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.