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| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.title: | Edmond Johnson |
| Name: | Johnson, Edmond Woodward |
| Rank: | Private |
| Service Number: | 2189 |
| Place of Birth: | Hobart (Tas.) |
| Next of Kin: | Frederick and Emma Johnson - Parents ; 2 1/2 Mile, Port Darwin, N.T. |
| Biographical notes: | Edmond Johnson was born in Hobart. In 1911 his parents, Frederick Johnson, a train driver, and Emma Julietta, nee Woodward, came to farm on the Daly River, and Edmond lived on the Daly until he enlisted in the AIF on 11 March 1916 at Darwin. Source: NTDB. |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith's assistant |
| Date of Enlistment: | 11-Mar-1916 |
| Age at Enlistment: | 19 |
| Place of Enlistment: | Darwin |
| Unit: | 47th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement |
| Service: | Australian Imperial Force |
| Date of Death: | 1918-03-28 |
| Place of Death: | Dernancourt (France) |
| Memorials: | Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (France) Darwin Cenotaph |
| Service History: | He served as a private and embarked for Europe with the 4th Reinforcements, 47th Australian Infantry Battalion at Brisbane on HMAT 'Boorara' on 16 August 1916. He saw action in France and was killed on 28 March 1918. The Villiers-Bretonneux Memorial in France and the Darwin War Memorial bear his name. Johnson Park in Darwin is named after him. Johnson's personal effects were lost at sea when SS 'Barunga' was sunk by a torpedo, 15 July 1918. |
| Related link: | Service Record "For Freedom's cause", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 10 August 1918: p.16. Roll of Honour Unit War Diary Honours and Awards NT Place Names Register : Johnson Park Embarkation Roll - HMAT 'Boorara' "Roll of Honor", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 20 Apr 1918: p.17. Commonwealth War Graves - Villers-Bretonneux Memorial - Edmond Johnson Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography edited by David Carment. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press, 2008: p.306. Battle scarred : the 47th Battalion in the first World War by Craig Deayton. Newport, N.S.W. : Big Sky Publishing, 2011. Nominal Roll My Uncle Ted a man I never met! |
| Genealogical Society NT Pioneer Register: | 4100 |
| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.subject.*: | ANZAC World War, 1914-1918 -- Northern Territory Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History |
| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.identifier.uri: | http://hdl.handle.net/10070/214502 |
| Appears in Collections: | Fallen ANZACs |
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