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JOHNS, Ronald Garfield
| Service Number: | 22139 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade |
| Born: | Wallaroo Mines, 22 July 1892 |
| Home Town: | Wallaroo Mines, Copper Coast, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Wallaroo Mines Public School |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | East Malvern, Victoria, Australia, 25 July 1953, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: | Kadina Town Hall WW1 & WW2 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 20 May 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 22139, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 May 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 22139, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, HMAT Medic, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Gunner, 22139 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Aberfoyle Park High School
Ronald Johns grew up at Wallaroo Mines attending school and Methodist Church. He started as Office boy at the mines and worked in the office until World War I. In August 1915 Ron left for Exhibition Camp in Adelaide prior to serving overseas. From Adelaide they were transferred to Maribyrnong, Victoria. He and his friend Alfred Mashford spent week-ends at the home of Mr and Mrs Will Spencer, 24 Woorayl Street, Carnigie, Victoria.
He sailed from Pt. Melbourne May 1916 for England on S.S “Medic” and after training served in France. After being severely wounded while with the 30th Battery, of the third Division Field Artillery, was sent back to Norwich Hospital on a stretcher and invalided home in 1917. He returned to work at Wallaroo Mines.
On January 4th, 1921 at Carnigie Methodist Church Ron and Eva were married and lived in Wallaroo Mines with Ron’s parents for one year, then in Hay Street, Kadina until the mines closed down 28/10/1923. They returned to Victoria where Ron worked at Caulfield Town Hall as a Clerk until his death.
On 17/11/1927 a daughter Ronda Eva was born at their home 45 Hughes Street, East Malvern, Victoria. Ron was interested in music and singing all his life and played violin in orchestras and for Sunday School Anniversaries. He died on 28/7/1953 and there is a Memorial Rose tree at Springvale Crematorium.
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