JOHNSON, Joseph Francis
| Service Number: | 52073 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 October 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Cornella, Victoria, Australia, 7 January 1878 |
| Home Town: | Hines Hill, Merredin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Claremont, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6 May 1934, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Oct 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 52073, 1st to 3rd (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements | |
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| 8 May 1918: | Involvement Private, 52073, 1st to 3rd (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Albany embarkation_ship: SS Port Darwin embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 May 1918: | Embarked Private, 52073, 1st to 3rd (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements, SS Port Darwin, Albany | |
| 10 Nov 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Field Ambulance | |
| 23 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 52073, 2nd Field Ambulance, per HT Canberra to Fremantle as Nursing Staff | |
| 19 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 52073, 2nd Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Joe was the third of eighteen children of John Godfrey Johnson (b1848 in Bolivia, NSW) and Ellen Folwell (b1859 in Stawell, Victoria). John's parents had arrived in 1841 as Assisted Immigrants on board the Brothers and lived in Bolivia NSW before following the goldrushes to Victoria and WA. John (a Labourer) and Ellen married in 1875 in Heathcote, Victoria and lived in Victoria and NSW before moving their family to WA in the early 1890s. John worked in Perth WA as a Labourer before becoming a Farmer in Darkan WA.
Joe was a Carter in Midland Junction WA in 1899 when he married Lucy Evaline Bowra (b1881 in Perth WA). Joe had been sentenced to six months hard labour in Fremantle Prison in May 1898 for receiving stolen goods. Joe and Evaline lived in Midland Junction where Joe worked as a Carter before moving to Perth - Joe worked as a Fireman before becoming a Compositor for the Daily News for six years. In 1917 Joe was a Farmer at Tichville Farm, Hines Hill near Northam WA when he enlisted in the AIF. He was a Private (Service No:52073) attached to 2nd Field Ambulance when he was Discharged in September 1919. Joe was one of eight brothers who served in WWI and WWII and two of his sons - George William (Service No:WX21629) and Ralph Joseph (Service No:W13357) served in WWII.
Returning to Hines Hill near Northam, WA Joe was a Farmer in 1924 when he was sentenced by the Supreme Court in Perth to ten years hard labour at Fremantle Prison for Incest (The Blackwood Times; 1924). In 1930 Lucy was granted a Divorce. Joe died in 1934.
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