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Bmbdr. 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.