BORN HULL 1896. SON OF GEORGE BACON JOHNSON AND FLOENCE PREST, OF 120 SEVERN STREET AND 68 KENT STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A LABOURER, LIVING AT 14 FRANCIS STREET, HULL, IN 1914. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 149 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHEST.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 16/11/1914. TRAINED AT BEVERLEY AND RIPON. SERVED IN EGYPT, AND FRANCE. PROMOTED SERGEANT, ON 20/01/1917. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 08/11/1917, AGED 21. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR 2 YEARS AND 358 DAYS,
A SINGLE MAN. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE. HE ALSO LEFT A YOUNGER BROTHER, HAROLD.
THIS WAS HIS ARMY ADDRESS. HIS FAMILY LIVED AT ‘EVERGLEN HOUSE’, PLANE STREET, HULL.
NB: LT. GEO STANLEY JOHNSON, ‘ATLANTA’ – 16 SPRING STREET. ANOTHER GEORGE STANLEY JOHNSON, BORN IN HULL IN 1892, SERVED IN THE NAVY DURING THE WAR.
