BORN HULL 1893. FOURTH SON OF GEORGE AND MARY JANE JOHNSON, OF 36, ALBEMARLE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 9, LOLA CRESCENT, ALBEMARLE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A SHIPWRIGHT. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS – GEORGE, ARTHUR, HAROLD, & SYDNEY AND ONE SISTER, ELSIE. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS WHO ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR.
ERNEST SERVED IN THE 6TH & 7TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED AND TRNSFERRED TO THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS DEPOT. DISCHARGED WITH WOUNDS AND AWARDED A SILVER WAR BADGE (NO: B301897). DIED IN HULL, ON 14/06/1929, AGED 36.
HIS BROTHER HAROLD WAS EDUCATED AT HULL’S HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL. HE ENLISTED IN THE 2ND HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 16/06/1916, AGED 25. HE IS REMEMBERED ON THE ST MATTHEWS CHURCH WW1 MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 21ST JUNE 1916. *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, SYDNEY JOHNSON, 1/4TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, DIED A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 26/10/1918, AGED 18.
