BORN HULL 1889. MARRIED ON 05/11/1911, AT ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH, HULL. HIS WIFE, VIOLET GETRUDE MENNEL (BORN 10/5/1889), LIVED AT 12, VICTORIA TERRACE, BEETON STREET, OFF HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS); 6, HENRY TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET, HULL AND 4, CHARLOTTE TERRACE, WALMSLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN, ARTHUR WILLIAM AND IRENE GERTRUDE JOHNSON, BORN 1912 AND 1913. HE WORKED AS A BOILER MAKER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 14/11/1914. REMAINED IN BRITAIN DURING THE WAR. RELEASED FOR MUNITIONS WORK, ON 07/11/1916. DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY WITH TUBERCULOSIS, ON 21/06/1918, HAVING SERVED 3 YEARS AND 218 DAYS. HE DIED LESS THAN A MONTH LATER, ON 19/07/1918, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN, ARTHUR, IRENE, ERNEST AND IVY, WHO MOVED TO 11, KATES TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE MARFLEET, EAST HULL ROLL OF HONOUR. 12, VICTORIA TERRACE, BEETON STREET, HULL IS HIS CWGC ADDRESS.
