Frederick Walter JOHNSON

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JOHNSON, Frederick Walter

Service Number:	1675
Enlisted:	4 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 21 March 1890
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, 9 May 1974, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 1 Service

4 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1675, 47th Infantry Battalion
20 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 1675, 47th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
20 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 1675, 47th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney
25 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 45th Infantry Battalion
24 Jul 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Pioneer Battalion
12 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1675, 4th Pioneer Battalion, per Port Napier
20 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1675, 4th Pioneer Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Fred was the seventh of nine children of Charles August Johnson (born 1850 in Kalmar, Sweden) and Mary Auguste Caroline Luder (born 1860 in Germany). Charles was a Mariner when he arrived in Sydney, NSW on board the Jason in 1868. He and Mary married in Ipswich, QLD in 1878. Charles was a Tailor, and the family lived in Ipswich until Mary's death in 1906.

Fred was a Carpenter in Brisbane, QLD when he enlisted in the AIF in January 1916, and served as a Private (Service No:1675) with 47th and 45th Infantry Battalions and 4th Pioneer Battalion. Brother Alfred Ernest (Service No:5923), and Brothers-in-Law Oscar Joseph Gridley (Service No:370), John Hinkley (Service No:5108), and Charles Albert Fry (Service No:5336) also served in WWI,

Discharged in August 1919, Fred returned to Brisbane, QLD and was working as a Carpenter when he married Estella Ivins (born 1900 in Ipswich, QLD) in 1921. Fred and Estella moved to Cooloolabin in Nambour, QLD where Fred was a Farmer until 1930, when Estella moved into Nambour and worked as a Dressmaker (died in 1962). Fred returned work as a Carpenter, living in Brisbane and then Redcliffe. He died in 1974.

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