BORN HULL 1887. DRYPOOL. ELDEST SON OF EDWARD & HARRIET JOHNSON, AT 21 MERSEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 45 NORFOLK STREET, HULL. HE WORKED AS A CHECKING CLERK ON THE SHIPS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 3RD COLDSTREAM GUARDS. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD BY A SNIPER. HE WAS KILLED ON 01/08/1915, AGED 27. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 07/08/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE LEFT PARENTS, BROTHERS, ARTHUR AND ALBERT, AND SISTERS, ELSIE, BEATRICE AND EVELYN.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE MERSEY STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, HULL. (Hull Daily Mail 30 December 1916)
First name:
HAROLD
Regiment:
Military Number:
13063
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
01/08/1915
Place died:
Cuinchy Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
27
45 , NORFOLK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
