Major WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSTON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Engineers
Date of Death
Died 08 June 1915
Age 34 years old
Photographer: Max Dutton
- Secondary Unit, Regiment Brigade Major, 15th Infantry Brigade
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Mary Johnston, of 36, Cathcart Rd., South Kensington, London, and the late Maj. William Johnston.
- Personal Inscription THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD JESU MERCY
- Additional Citation note
An extract from the Supplement to "The London Gazette," No. 28985, of 25th Nov., 1914, records the following:- "At Missy, on 14th Sept., under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., worked with his own hand two rafts bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition; thus enabling advanced Brigade to maintain its position across the river."
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