JOHNS, Ernest Richardson
| Service Number: | N273419 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Canteen Service |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 5 March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Merchant |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 21 May 1986, aged 97 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 11 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, N273419 | |
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| 29 May 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, N273419, Australian Army Canteen Service | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, N273419 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lieutenant Ernest Richardson Johns (Service No:N273419) served in the ACMF from 11 July 1941 to 29 May 1945, and was attached to Australian Defence Canteen Service - appointed Clerk and then Purchasing Officer.
Ernest was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1889, sixth of eight children of Herbert Alexander Johns (b1855 in London, England) and Helen Arnott Christie (b1861 in Kyneton, Victoria). Herbert started work in London as a Publisher's Clerk, immigrating in the late 1870s following his father's death. Herbert and Helen married in 1879 in Williamstown in Melbourne, where they settled and raised their family and Herbert was a Mechanic/Engineer, and served as a Councillor with the Williamstown Shire Council.
Ernest worked as a Commercial Traveller, and was in Broken Hill NSW in 1915 when he married Muriel Isabella Hogg (b1893 in Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria). Ernest and Muriel settled in Broken Hill, where, in 1928, they established Campbell & Sutton (wholesale merchants, importers and agents) - they were both Directors and Ernest was also Manager. In the mid 1930s the family moved to Sydney, where Ernest was a Merchant, serving with the ACMF in WWII. In the late 1940s Ernest and Muriel moved to Grose Vale in Kurrajong, where Ernest was a Farmer. Following Muriel's death in 1954, Ernest remained at Grose Vale until the early 1960s, when he retired and settled in Sydney with youngest daughter Wilga (a Nurse). Ernest died in 1986.