Name
George William Johnson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/05/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
147850
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
49th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IX. B. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield. Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, We are not aware of any memorial in Roe Green
Pre War
Son of George and Elizabeth Johnson, born about 1895 in Hatfield (probably Roe Green)
In the 1901 Census, George, aged 6, was living in Roe Green with his parents and five siblings: Berty (15), Lizzie (13), Emily (10), Ethel (4) and Willie (3). His father was working as an agricultural labourer. In 1911 Census the family were living at Chauntry Lane, Roe Green, Hatfield, his father was still an agricultural labourer and George as a farm boy. The family and been joined by another daughter Mable who was 10. The census confirmed that his parents had been married for 20 years and of their 8 children 2 and died.
Officially recorded as born in Hatfield and enlisted there.
Wartime Service
Unusually his Medal Card does not confirm when he went overseas, however this is likely to by in 1916 and his medal do not include the Mons of 1914/15 Star. However, it does confirm some service details, i.e. he was initially Private 2334 in the Hertfordshire Regiment, then transferred to Northumberland Fusiliers (No 6096), then the York & Lancaster Regiment (No 203192) and lastly to the Machine Corps as Private No 147850.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of September 1914, in the list of men mobilised from Hatfield, recorded: “Johnson, George - Roe Green - Territorial’s.” then in June 1918: “Roe Green has again suffered severely, Pte G Johnson having died of wounds on May 2nd.”
Awarded the British War Medal &Victory Medal.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Johnson (Mother) of Chantry Lane received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
