H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=JAY, JOHN HENRY=, Chief Electrician, 2nd Class, 345147, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=JAYES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4071), 191019, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=JEFFERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9649, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=DUNNINGTON-JEFFERSON, WILFRED MERVYN=, 2nd Lieut., 7th, attd.
3rd, Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. _s._
of the late Capt. Mervyn Dunnington-Jefferson, 33rd Regt., by his wife,
Louisa Dorothy (Ashcroft, Old Nunthorpe, York), dau. of the Rev. J.
Barry, Rector of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire; _b._ at Middlethorpe
Hall, York, 2 April, 1892; educ. Radley, and Christ Church, Oxford,
where he graduated with honours; entered the Inner Temple, 1912;
volunteered on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th
Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front in April, 1915, attd.
to the 3rd Battn., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of
Ypres, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ His elder brother, Major J. A.
Dunnington-Jefferson, is (1916) serving on the Headquarters Staff with
the Expeditionary Force in France.
[Illustration: =W. M. Dunnington-Jefferson.=]
=JEFFERY, CLAUD GIFFARD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. A.P.W.O. Yorkshire
Regt. (Green Howards), eldest _s._ of Herbert James Jeffery,
of Oak Mount, Manningham, Bradford, Solicitor, by his wife, Bertha
Greenwood, dau. of John Greenwood Sugden, of Eastwood House, Keighley,
Yorks, and grandson of Charles Jeffery, of Swaffham, Norfolk; _b._
Manningham, Bradford, 13 April, 1880; educ. Bradford Grammar School and
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; joined the Service Coy. of
the Vol. Battn. Yorkshire Regt., Dec. 1899, and went to South Africa
in Feb. 1900. He took part in operations in the Orange Free State,
May, 1900, including actions at Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River
(5 and 6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; in
operations East of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including actions at
Belfast (26 and 27 Aug.), and in those in Cape Colony. For his services
in South Africa he received the Queen’s medal with six clasps, and
was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Yorkshires (Green Howards) on Lord
Kitchener’s nomination, 14 Sept. 1901. He served in India and again
in South Africa, being promoted Lieut. 12 May, 1904, and Capt. 25
Aug. 1909, while from 1 March, 1910, to 12 April, 1912 (when he was
seconded for service with the Egyptian Army), he was Adjutant to his
battn. at York and Blackdown. He was restored to the Establishment,
12 April, 1914; left for France with his battn. 4 Oct. 1914, and died
at Ypres on the 24th of the same month, of wounds received in action
on the 22nd near Gheluvelt. Buried in the cemetery at Ypres. He was
mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan.
1915. Capt. Jeffery was a keen all-round sportsman, his activities
embracing pig-sticking, polo, big game shooting, hunting, athletics and
regimental steeplechasing. He _m._ at Barbon, co. Westmoreland, 10
Feb. 1914, Nellie, widow of Spencer Anketell-Jones, and dau. of John
George Wilding, of Preston, co. Lancashire; _s.p._
=JEFFERY, ROBERT BERRY=, A.B., 195604 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=JEFFERY, WILLIAM ALLEN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 28350, H.M.S. Hawke,
_s._ of Wilfred John Jeffery, of 2, Elm Leigh Villas, Ash,
Aldershot, co. Surrey; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=JEFFREY, JOHN=, Trooper, No. 784, 1st Light Horse Regt.,
Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of John Hogg Forrester
Jeffrey, of 5, Albany Street, Blairhill, Coatbridge, co. Lanark,
Analytical and Metallurgical Chemist, by his wife, Jeannie, dau. of
John Brownlie; _b._ Coatbridge, 22 May, 1895; educ. Gartsherrie
Academy, Coatbridge, and Allan Glens School, Glasgow; on leaving
school was for three years in the Engineering Works of Messrs. Murray
and Paterson of Coatbridge, and then went to Australia to take up
sheep-farming; joined the 1st Australian Light Horse at Sydney,
N.S.W. 27 Nov. 1914; left for Egypt, 6 Feb. 1915; proceeded to the
Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine,
Gallipoli, on the morning of 7 Aug. following, in the heroic charge of
the 1st Light Horse, from which only 13 out of 300 returned; _unm._
[Illustration: =John Jeffrey.=]
=JEFFRIES, HERBERT JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3423), 188870,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JENINGS, GEORGE PIERSE CREAGH=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s
Shropshire L.I., 3rd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Ulick Albert Jenings,
of Ironpool, co. Galway and Mervue, Monkstown, co. Dublin, late Army
Medical Service, J.P., by his wife, Isabel, dau. of Simon Macnamara
Creagh; _b._ Dublin, 4 Jan. 1885; educ. Royal Military College,
Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st King’s Shropshire L.I., 16 Aug.
1905, and promoted Lieut., 20 Jan. 1907; left for France in Aug. 1914;
was Assistant Adjutant to his battn., and was killed in action at
the Rue de Bois, near Armentières, 6 Nov. 1914. Buried at the Rue de
Bois; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “He was machine-gun
officer and was using his glasses at the barrier to find a target for
his gun, when suddenly a volley was fired by the enemy and he was shot
dead. He was a very promising officer, and is a great loss not only
to the regt., but to the Army. He was very popular with officers and
men, and had done real good work throughout the war”; and an A.D.C.,
Headquarters, 6th Division, wrote: “He had been most dashing and
gallant ... and is a terrible loss.”
=JENKINS, JOHN REGINALD=, Sergt., No. 1853, 13th Battn. (Princess
Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest _s._ of
James Jenkins, of 24, Wallingford Avenue, North Kensington, W.,
Ironmonger, by his wife, Catherine Letitia, dau. of Daniel Howell;
_b._ Hammersmith, 12 Dec. 1885; educ. Lower Latimer School there;
was an Ironmonger’s Assistant; joined the Kensingtons about 1908;
volunteered for Imperial service on outbreak of war; left for France, 3
Nov. 1914; and was killed in action in the advance against the Aubers
Ridge, 9 May, 1915, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly
distinguished themselves, carrying three lines of German trenches
with the bayonet, and holding them until the German fire made them
untenable; _unm._ His Platoon Officer, 2nd Lieut. J. E. Lewin,
wrote: “Sergt. Jenkins was my Sergt. in No. 6 Platoon, and when the
two Platoons of ‘B’ Company, which were ahead of us, were left without
officers, it became necessary for me to go to the front and lead. This
I did, and my Platoon kept with me, with Sergt. Jenkins well to the
front. We forced the German front trench, and proceeded to take up an
arranged position. We had taken this, when I thought it necessary to
find a better and safer one, and so I accordingly called for someone to
follow, in order to go forward and scout for a proposed better line of
defence. Sergt. Jenkins and another Sergt. (one on either side) came,
and it was while thus doing one of the most important and vital acts
upon which depended the safety of the whole of ‘B’ Company and probably
the whole Battn. that I lost a comrade and friend. The two Sergts. were
both shot by rifle fire and died instantaneously, and it is a sickening
thought that I myself of the three was the only man to return. I cannot
praise too highly the actions of Sergt. Jenkins on that day, which were
but ordinary specimens of his everyday actions, and of a true and brave
British soldier.”
[Illustration: =John Reginald Jenkins.=]
=JENKINS, ROBERT=, Private, No. 3845, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt.), 3rd _s._ of Robert Jenkins, of Townhead, Glasgow,
by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of (----) Hamilton; _b._ Glasgow,
27 June, 1882; educ. Saint Rollox Board School, Glasgow; was in the
employment of the Steel Company of Scotland at their Garthamloch
Collieries; joined the 2nd Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left for France
in Dec., and was killed in action near Hooge, 25 Sept. 1915. He
_m._ at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1908, Janet, dau. of Arthur Morrow, of
Hogganfield, and had a son and a daughter: Arthur, _b._ 15 Jan.
1910; and Mary Jane, _b._ 8 Jan. 1911.
=JENKINS, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7610), S.S. 1394 Chatham,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=JENKINSON, JOHN BANKS=, Capt., Rifle Brigade, eldest _s._
and heir of Sir George Banks Jenkinson, of Eastwood, co. Gloucester,
12th Baronet, by his wife, Madeline (Eastwood Park, Falfield;
Hawkesbury, Chippenham), eldest dau. of Arthur Holme Sumner, of
Hatchlands, Surrey; _b._ London, 9 June, 1881; educ. Harrow and
Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, 10 March, 1900, and
promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1901, and Captain, 6 May, 1908; served in the
South African War 1901–2, being employed with the Mounted Infantry;
took part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to Dec. 1901, and
in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with
five clasps); was Adjutant, School of Mounted Infantry, Egypt, 11 June,
1905, to 5 May, 1908; went through the Staff College, 1910–11; was
G.S.O. (3rd Grade) to Sir James Grierson, Eastern Command, 1911–13,
and Brigade Major, 3rd Infantry Brigade, at Bordon, and at the Front,
1913 to 14 Sept. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in
Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14
Sept. 1914. Buried at Vendresse. Capt. Jenkinson was a well-known big
game hunter, and had secured rare trophies from countries, including
South Africa, Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Rocky Mountains, the Canadian
Prairies, and Southern Tunisia. He was also a keen polo player. He
_m._ at St. George’s, Hanover Square, 9 Nov. 1907, Joan (The White
House, Hook, Hants), only dau. of Colonel Joseph Hill, of Wollaston
Hall, Northamptonshire, C.B., and had two children: Sir Anthony
Banks Jenkinson, 13th Baronet, _b._ 3 July, 1912; succeeded his
grandfather, 5 June, 1915; and Elizabeth Deborah, _b._ 27 Oct.
1908.
[Illustration: =John Banks Jenkinson.=]
=JENNINGS, ALLEN WILLIAM MARK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2401),
165648, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JENNINGS, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6422),
305498, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JENNINGS, FREDERICK=, A.B., R.F.R., S.S. 2437, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JENNINGS, FREDERICK SINCLAIR WILLS=, Private, No. 63495, 23rd
Battn., subsequently attd. 14th Reserve Battn., Canadian Expeditionary
Force, eldest _s._ of Frederick Wills Jennings, of 8, Selborne
Place, Hove, formerly of Ealing and Streatham, B.A., retired H.C.S.;
_b._ Wandsworth Common, co. Surrey, 11 Nov. 1881; educ. St. Paul’s
School (foundation scholar), Wren’s; Edinburgh University and Bangor
University (Agricultural Department); after finishing his course there,
he went to Canada and took up land in British Columbia, but on the
outbreak of war volunteered for active service overseas with the West
Mounted Rifles, 23rd Battn., at Calgary, 4 Nov. 1914. After training
in Quebec, he came over with the Reserve Battn. of the 1st Contingent
to Shorncliffe in March, 1915, went to the Front in May, and was shot
through the head by a sniper while on duty in the trenches, near the
Bois de Ploegsteert, Belgium, 6 July, 1915; _unm._ He was buried
the same day in a small cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Platoon
Commander wrote: “He joined my platoon from the 23rd Regt. early in
May, after the Battle of Ypres, and I was struck from the first by
his cheerfulness, quiet obedience, and a striking devotion to duty in
face of the many obstacles we have to contend with. He received his
baptism of fire shortly after coming to this country at the Battle of
Festubert, and was with us at Givenchy, coming successfully through
these ordeals.” Jennings was in the 1st XV. at St. Paul’s, and joined
the Cadet Corps during the South African War.
[Illustration: =Frederick S. W. Jennings.=]
=JENNINGS, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 593V, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JENNINGS, REGINALD JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2355, 18th Battn.
(London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of William
Jennings, of West View, Blagdon Hill, Taunton, by his wife, Mary Ann,
dau. of Francis Lancashire, of St. Helier’s, Jersey; _b._ St.
Helier’s, Jersey, 1 Feb. 1888; educ. Huish Grammar School, Taunton,
and St. Mark’s College, Chelsea; was a Schoolmaster at Bridge Council
Schools, Wealdstone; served in the 10th Middlesex Territorial Regt.,
1907–11, and enlisted for Imperial service in Sept. 1914; left with
his regt. for the Front, 9 March, 1915, served in France and Flanders,
and was seriously wounded at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died the day
following. Buried in cemetery at Noeux les Mines; _unm._
[Illustration: =Reginald John Jennings.=]
=JENNINGS, RICHARD LOUIS=, A.B., 213174, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in
action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=JENNINGS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13997, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=JENOURE, GEORGE ETHELREAD=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 21192, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=JEPHSON, JOHN NOBLE=, Major, 6th (Service) Royal Munster
Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of the late Dep.-Inspector-General William
Holmes Jephson, M.D., by his wife, Mary Harden, dau. of the late
Major Horatio Nelson Noble, Indian Army, and grandson of the late
John Jephson, of Limerick, J.P.; _b._ Bangalore, India, 8 Oct.
1864; educ. Norwood (Exeter), Newton Abbot College, Kelly College, and
Sandhurst; gazetted to Manchester Regt. in 1885, joining the Indian
Army (5th Bengal L.I.) in 1889. He obtained his majority in 1903, but
becoming subject to malaria, retired from the Indian Army in 1905,
and joined the Territorial force in Devon, with the Command of the
4th Wessex Brigade, R.F.A. He resigned this command shortly before
the outbreak of war in 1914, when he again offered his services, and
was appointed second in command of the 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers in
Sept. 1914. He took part in the landing of that Regt. in Suvla Bay
on 7 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent fighting on the Karakol Dagh;
on his own initiative he took an important position there, which was
subsequently officially named “Jephson’s Post”; he was shot through the
head on 15 Aug. while charging at the head of his men in the attack
on Kiretch Tepe Sirt, and died of his wounds in Mudros Hospital on 29
Aug. 1915. His Colonel wrote of him: “From the first the loyalty he
always showed to me, though junior to him in years, never slackened
or failed; when we got into the active sphere of operations, his
energy and keenness were marvellous; he practically alone captured an
important height which the Brigadier always afterwards in his orders
called ‘Jephson’s Post,’ and it was in the defence of this post that
he was shot. For absolute dash and fearlessness he had not an equal,
and his loss is irreparable.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s
Dispatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for good work
done in Gallipoli. Major Jephson was a keen sportsman and a first-class
shot. He _m._ at Lucknow, 20 Dec. 1890, Lilian Bell Bere, only
child of the late Capt. Edward Septimus Wood, of the Indian Forests
Department (formerly of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), by his
wife, Bessie Bella Gordon, dau. of the late Major B. Edward Baker Bere,
16th Lancers, and had issue two sons: Edward William Francis (gazetted
to R.F.A. Feb. 1915), _b._ 5 Nov. 1897; and John Arthur Holmes,
_b._ 13 March, 1902.
[Illustration: =John Noble Jephson.=]
=JEROME, JOHN WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 1st Class), 7427,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=JEROME, RALPH CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 8502, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire
Regt., yst. _s._ of Charles Jerome, of 15, Ormeley Road, Balham,
Solicitor, Freeman of the City of London by purchase (1883), formerly
a member of the New Malden Local Board, and afterwards a member of the
L.C.C. for Brixton (1895–1901), by his wife, Florence Elizabeth (died
in his absence at the Front), dau. of John Jacobs, of Basingstoke;
_b._ Locksley Lodge, New Malden, 15 Feb. 1888; educ. Malden
College, Merchant Taylors’ School, Dulwich College, and Margate
College; enlisted at Stratford, Middlesex, on 25 Oct. 1906, aged 18
years 9 months, was seven years with the Army and five years on the
Reserve; served with his Battn. at Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, and
other places, and finally at Sialkot in the Punjab; returned to England
and received his discharge with an exemplary character; rejoined his
old regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France on or about 21 Nov.
1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, two
miles west of Aubers, on the morning of 12 March, 1915. Buried on the
field; _unm._ Sergt. Wrist, who stood beside him when he was shot,
wrote: “He died a gallant death; the men of his section miss him very
much,” and 2nd Lieut. H.S.R. Montesole of the Royal Sussex Regt., attd.
2nd Yorkshires, since killed in action, wrote that he was “always a
good soldier, and died as a soldier should.”
[Illustration: =Ralph Charles Jerome.=]
=JERRAM, HARRY ESCOMBE RAVENHILL=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke,
2nd _s._ of the Rev. Arnold Escombe Jerram, of St. Augustine’s
Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, M.A., S.P.G., Organising Secretary for the
Midland Dioceses and late Vicar of Langford, co. Oxon, by his wife,
Anna Christina, dau. of William Waldron Ravenhill, of the Inner Temple,
Recorder of Andover; _b._ Bradley Vicarage, Huddersfield, 31 Aug.
1897; educ. Hinwick House, near Wellingborough, Osborne and Dartmouth;
appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when
that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the North Sea, 15 Oct. following.
He was a cousin of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas M. Jerram, K.C.B., late
Commander-in-Chief on the China Station, and great-nephew of the late
Right Hon. Harry Escombe, P.C., Q.C., M.L.S., Premier of Natal.
=JERRED, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., 15184, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=JESSE, ROBERT TURVILLE=, A.B., 227397, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=JESSOP, NAPIER ARNOTT=, Lieut., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia
Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late George
Henry Jessop, of Crediton, Devonshire, by his wife, Ethel Marian, only
dau. of the late John Frederick Bell, Capt. Loyal North Lancashire
Regt.; _b._ Taunton, co. Somerset, 28 May, 1889; educ. private
school at Bishop’s Stortford; went to Vancouver Island, British
Columbia, in 1908, where he was first farming, and later went into
real estate business, received a commission as Lieut. in 88th Victoria
Fusiliers, 16 Sept. 1912, and served with them on strike duty at
Nanaimo, B.C., from Aug. 1913 until the outbreak of war; appointed
Lieut. in 7th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914;
came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; left for France, 10
Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien during the heroic
stand of the Canadians in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915;
_unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote: “Lieut. Jessop was on the
right of our battn. line, the section which was first surrounded, and
which was later practically wiped out. Lieut. Jessop, all agree, was
perfectly splendid under the fierce attack that was thrown against us
that day. He was an inspiration to his men. There is not much to tell,
for his platoon were in trenches throughout, and merely fought the
Germans off by rifle fire. There was nothing spectacular about it, but
it was the height of enduring courage.”
[Illustration: =Napier Arnott Jessop.=]
=JOB, BERNARD CRAIG KEBLE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn., The
Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. Frederick
William Job, Vicar of Lower Gornal, co. Stafford, by his wife, Emily
Frances, dau. of William Young Craig, M.P., for N. Staffordshire
(1880–85); _b._ Liverpool, 9 June, 1887; educ. Radley College;
went to Liverpool to enlist in the Liverpool Scottish the day War
was declared, 4 Aug. 1914, and was sworn in 6 Aug. He received his
commission 1 Nov., went to the Front with a draft of the Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, arriving in France on Good Friday, and a few days later was
attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. and was killed in action in
the counter-attack on Hill 60, 18 April, 1915. Writing to his father,
Major Robinson, commanding the 1st Battn., said: “He was shot by a
bullet and died almost immediately on the morning of April 18 in the
heavy fighting which followed our capture of a portion of the enemy’s
position called Hill 60, 2½ miles S.E. of Ypres. I understand that he
died almost instantly after being hit and that he could have felt no
pain. It was not possible during the fighting to bury his body. I am,
however, informed that all the dead have since been buried, so your son
no doubt lies at rest among the other officers and men who fought with
him. Your son had only joined this Battn. a few days before his death,
but from the little I saw of him, I formed the opinion that he was a
gallant and valuable officer.” Col. Sir Arthur G. Boscawen, of the 3rd
Battn., wrote: “He was a universal favourite and the soul of courage,
had he lived he would have made a very fine officer.”
[Illustration: =Bernard Craig Keble Job.=]
=JOBBINS, THOMAS ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7733),
S.S. 103098, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=JOHNSON, ALBERT=, Ship’s Steward, 173611, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=JOHNSON, ALBERT CHAPMAN=, Private, No. 73915, 28th Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, Bombers’ Section, _s._ of John
Johnson, of 44, Burton Stone Lane, Clifton, York, Gardener, by his
wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James (and Ann) Chapman; _b._ Wiggington
Grange, near York, 13 Nov. 1883; educ. Skelton, near York, and
Eythorne, Kent; was for some time a telegraph messenger at the Post
Office, York, and later an attendant first at the North Riding Asylum,
and after Aug. 1910, at the Mimico Asylum, Canada, and afterwards was
successively employed on the Canadian Pacific Railway, at a lumber
camp, and on the Grand Trunk Railway; joined the 28th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, 1 Oct. 1914, and came over with the 2nd Contingent
in June, 1915; left for France, 17 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action
during the advance from Loos, 8 Oct. following; _unm._ His Company
Officer wrote of him as “a man ever ready to do his duty--no growler,
but always bright and willing.”
[Illustration: =Albert Chapman Johnson.=]
=JOHNSON, ALFRED ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4543), S.S. 1613,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=JOHNSON, DAVID=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 282), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSON, GEORGE ALBERT WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5028B, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSON, GEORGE GUMBRELL=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 3069), 148022
(Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSON, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 346902, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=JOHNSON, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3644), 190781, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.