BORN BISHOPHILL, YORK, 1878. SON OF JAMES CREASER (1850-1910) & PHOEBE ELIZABETH JOHNSON (1849-1931). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HE MARRIED CHARLOTTE HUNT, IN HULL, IN 1901. HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE, AND DAUGHTERS, PHOEBE AND DORA, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS (1911 CENUS). A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 27/09/1916, AGED 38. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 09/12/1916 & 16/06/1918. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, CHARLOTTE BURGESS, AND THEN TO EMMAN HORNBY, GUARDIAN OF THEIR TWO CHILDREN.
First name:
RICHARD JOHNSON
Military Number:
3/19885
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/09/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
38
