Name
Edward Walter Johnson
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/04/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/42958
King's Royal Rifle Corps
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CANTERBURY CEMETERY, KENT
B. 423.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Dead, But Sleeping Until The Resurrection
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial(s), Hockerill, Hockerill
Pre War
Edward Walter Johnson was born in 1884 in Stansted, Essex to Herbert John Johnson, a hay carter, and Henrietta Christiana (nee Pomphret).
On the 1901 Census he was named as Walter, and living with his family of parents, William (born 1894), Mabel (born 1896) and Thomas (born 1900) at Skinners Yard, Hockerill Street, Bishop's Stortford. By the 1911 Census he was living at The Feathers' Inn, 18 Market Square, Bishop's Stortford, where he was a servant, working as an Ostler. His family of parents, William (hay carter), Florence (born 1905) and Daisy (born 1909) were living at 80 Dunmow Road, Bishops Stortford.
Wartime Service
Edward Walter enlisted at Bishop's Stortford and served initially in the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 27419, later transferring to the King's Royal Rifle Corps as Rifleman R/42958.
The 6th (Reserve) Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps was a training battalion and was stationed at Queenborough, Kent. He died at the Military Hospital, Canterbury, Kent. As no Service Records or medal records have been found, it is likely that he did not served abroad and died of disease on 29 Apr 1918.
Additional Information
His mother Christiana received a War Gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £12 0s 3s.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
