JOHNSON, Montague Thomas
| Service Numbers: | 96, 191 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1902 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia, 10 July 1879 |
| Home Town: | Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Mont Park, Victoria, Australia , 4 May 1963, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lang Lang Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 26 Apr 1902: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 96, 4th Imperial Bushmen |
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World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 191, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Corporal, 191, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Corporal, 191, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 6 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, 191, 21st Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Jul 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, 191, 21st Infantry Battalion, ex Egypt per Mashobia Karoo |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Monty was the seventh of ten children of James Alfred Johnson (born 1839 in London) and Mary Frances Thomson (born 1844 in Lancashire, England). James and Mary married in 1868 in Bairnsdale, Victoria, where they raised their family. James, a Labourer, died in 1903.
Monty was a Stockman at Bairndale in the East Gippsland in Victoria when he enlisted with the 6th Battalion Commonwealth Horse for Service in South Africa (National Archives Australia). He served as a Private (Service No: 96), and in 1903 married Eliza Butler (born 1875 at Glen in Victoria) in Melbourne.
Monty and Eliza settled briefly at the Lower Nicholson River in Gippsland, where Monty was a Labourer before moving to Woodleigh in the Flinders Region where Monty was a Dairy Farmer.
In January 1915 Monty enlisted with the AIF, serving as a Private (Service No:191)with 21st Infantry Battalion. He arrived with the Battalion in Egypt in June 1915 and moved on to Gallipoli in late August. Monty was Discharged in October 1916. Brother George Theodore (Service No:190) also served with 21st Infantry Battalion in WWI, and brother Hastings William served in both wars (Service Nos:17908, V6419).
Monty and Eliza settled at Kooweerup, Lang Lang in the Flinders Region, where Monty was a Baker. Following Eliza's death in 1949, Monty worked as a Labourer and Yardman in Kooreeup. Monty died in 1963.
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