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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Norton sub Hamdon
• Land Somerset, England
• Last residence Yeovil
• Family Son of Herbert and Mercy Johnson (nee Grinter), of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset; the eldest of eight children, four sisters (Lena Maud, Gertrude, Kathleen Mary and Olga May) and three brothers (Hubert, Herbert Henry, Stanley)
• Profession Hospital attendant at Horton Asylum
• Extra info Husband of Esme Frances Lilian Johnson (nee Guy), of "May View," West Hill, Alresford, Hampshire; one child, Esme Florence Mercy;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 29 August 1914, Epsom
• Service number R/277
• Rank Company Quartermaster Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 7th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
• Other data related to military career promoted Lance Corporal 15 February 1915 and Coy Quartermaster Sergeant on 10 December 1916; to France 19 May 1915

Death

• Wounded Dikkebus, shell attack in the dump
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds in the abdomen, in n°17 CCS
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - H - 6

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