JOHNSON, Arthur Andrew
| Service Number: | 6106 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Coraki, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 7 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coraki Honour Board, Coraki War Memorial, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6106, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6106, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6106, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Arthur Andrew Johnson was one of two sons of Andrew and Hannah Johnson of Coraki, New South Wales, who enlisted in the AIF.
They died only weeks apart in the heavy fighting near Ypres, Belgium during 1917. Andrew’s older brother, 4151 Pte. Walter Johnson 25th Battalion AIF, was killed in action on 20 September 1917, aged 24.
An article regarding Arthur was published in the Richmond River Herald during November 1917.
“Deep sorrow was felt in Coraki on Friday when the news became known that Pte. Arthur Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnson; of the Glebe, had been killed in action. Deceased enlisted last year, and had seen much fighting in France. It was only last month that he lost his brother Walter, in action, in one of the pushes there. Private Arthur Johnson was a fine stamp of Australian physically, a quiet, well conducted youth, and a good son to his parents, to whom the sympathy of friends throughout the district will go out in the heavy blow which patriotism and loyalty have caused to fall on the home. There is one lasting consolation that the parents of both boys will have, and it is that, though the lads died in the fullness of youth and on the threshold of manhood, they fell in the noblest way that men can fall - doing their duty for their country and for their follow men.”