BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JOHN WILFRED & ALICE JOHNSON, AT 10, TELFORD STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD. ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS TO DIE IN THE WAR.
HIS WIFE FLORENCE MANDER, AND DAUGHTER, MOLLIE, LIVED AT 16, BRUNSWICK AVENUE, GROSVENOR STREET, HULL (Hull Daily Mail 20/09/1917) AND 152 FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A MARINE ENGINEER’S CLERK, AT NORTH COAST ENGINEERING WORKS, WYKE STREET, HEDON ROAD, HULL. HE WAS WELL KNOWN IN FOOTBALL CIRCLES. PLAYED FOR HULL CITY AFC RESERVES, ALLIANCE AND OTHER TEAMS. HE WAS MARRIED WITH ONE YOUNG DAUGHTER. HE ENLISTED IN NOVEMBER 1915. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE (4TH HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT AND IN THEN IN FRANCE FROM 29/12/1915. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 10/09/1917, AGED 24. HE WAS DUE TO GO ON LEAVE IN A MONTH’S TIME.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW FLORENCE, WHO LATER MOVED TO INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA.
HE LEFT BROTHERS, HAROLD, WILLIAM GARSTON, CYRUS, AND WALTER JOHNSON, AND SISTERS, ALICE AND EDNA.
BURIED AT DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, FRANCE.
THE FOUR JOHNSON BROTHERS, LOST IN THE WAR WERE:
PRIVATE, HAROLD JOHNSON, 12/838, 12TH EYR, KILLED ON 16/04/1916, AGED 29, OF 94 BARMSTON STREET, HULL.
PRIVATE, ARTHUR JOHNSON, 13/446, 13TH EYR, DIED OF WOUNDS, 10/09/1917, AGED 24 – 152 FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL
STOKER, WALTER JOHNSON, ROYAL NAVY, HMS ‘MARMION’, DIED AT SEA, 21/10/1917, AGED 19 – 81 LEE STREET, HULL
PRIVATE, JOHN WILFRED JOHNSON, 3/7268, 3RD EYR, DIED IN HULL, ON 01/12/1918, AGED 33, OF 5 HARDY STREET, HULL
