JOHNSTONE, Archibald
| Service Number: | 31671 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Cue, WA, 1900 |
| Home Town: | Queens Park, Canning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Warehouseman |
| Died: | 31 July 1977, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia Anglican Mon A7 0287 |
| Memorials: | Canning Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 31671, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 31671, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , RMS Orontes, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Archibald Johnstone, lived with his parents in George Street, Queens Park, Perth. He was a bugler and at just 16 is one of the youngest lads featured here enlisting with his parents’ permission in June 1916. Assigned to the 38th Battery of the 10th Field Artillery Brigade as a driver, he went to Melbourne for further training and from there to England in February 1917. He reached the front in June, still aged only 17. He served throughout the rest of the war with the Field Artillery - safely but not unscathed. In February 1919, three months after the war ended he was admitted to hospital with debility, often a euphemism for shell shock and returned to Western Australia on 3 May aged 19. In 1938 Archibald (then 38) married Edna Tanner (26). They lived in Fremantle and Archibald worked variously as a general labourer and furnace man. He died in 1977 aged 77. Edna having predeceased him in 1960. Archibald’s mother, Laura, was a well known comic actress and dancer under her maiden name Laura South and was the daughter of another famous Australian stage actress. Archibald’s father William had died in April 1918.
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