Name
William Wallace Johnson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
88043
Royal Garrison Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
William Johnson was born at Leavesden in 1887. He was one of six children born to William (senior) and Sarah Johnson. William (senior) worked as a General Labourer and the family lived at Leavesden Woodside. In 1901, at the age of fourteen William (junior) was recorded as working as an Odd Boy at a Paper Mill.
The Parish Magazine recorded the birth of a son to William and his wife Eliza in February 1916.
William was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1916, serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and this entry remained unchanged through to the end of the War. The Leavesden Parish Records noted that he was employed as a Coal Porter at the Leavesden Asylum. He was recorded in the Absent Voters Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 serving with the 163rd Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and living at 39 Adrian Road, Abbots Langley.
William Johnson survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
