BORN BOSTON, LINCS 1889. SON OF JAMES & EMILY JOHNSON, OF GRIMSBY. A WELL-KNOWN HULL ATHLETE.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, WITH THE 12TH HULL PALS. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 15/11/1916, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MRS EMMA FRANK.
HE WAS LISTED AS KILLED, ON THE BRIDLINGTON STREET MEMORIAL. (PUBLISHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 29/12/1916.)
Hull Pals Memorial Post. SERGEANT SYDNEY WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON 12/336. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1889, Sydney was the son of James and Emily Johnson of Grimsby. He travelled north of the river to enlist at Hull City Hall not long after war was declared, joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. He served in Egypt over the winter of 1915/16 before sailing for France on February 29th docking at Marseilles early in March and taking the train north bound for a different kind of war in the trenches of the Western Front. Sydney was fatally wounded at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme on 13th November 1916 dying two days later in agonies I hope I never even imagine. He is buried in Couin British Cemetery; he was 27 years old. His name is listed on the Bridlington Street Roll of Honour, (Hull Daily Mail 29 December 1916).
