Name
George John Johnson
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
265358
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAUDRY BRITISH CEMETERY
IV. H. 33.
France
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
George John Johnson was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1886 to James and Sophia Johnson. Sadly his father had died by the 1891 Census and George, known as John, was living in Collins Cross, Bishop's Stortford with his widowed mother and four siblings. By 1901 the family were living in a cottage at South Street, Bishop's Stortford and his mother was working as a fur factory hand worker and [George] John was working as a pelt cleaner, presumably in the same factory. He had moved out of the family home by 1911 and was registered as visitor at 114 Goldsmith Road, Park Road, Low Leyton, West Ham at the house of widower Henry Cradick and family and was working as a factory hand. He married Florence Cradick in 1912 at Bishop's Stortford. They had two daughters, Florence, born in 1913 and Joyce born in 1917.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop's Stortford and served with the Hertfordshire Regiment in France from 6 November 1914. (He also served under reg. No. 2251.) He died of influenza contracted while on active service.
Additional Information
His widow Florence received a war gratuity of £20 and pay owing of £20 13s 7d. She also received a pension of £1 5s 5d a week from 26 May 1919. She later remarried to John Bird in 1921, Brother to William George Johnson who died on 14 June 1917, also named on the Bishop's Stortford Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
