Person    | Male  Died 20/10/1918

Isaac Johnson

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Isaac Johnson

Worked for the Great Northern Railway.

In 2013 we were contacted by Bottesford Heritage Group who wrote:

The Bottesford Heritage Group  is gathering information to substantiate an application to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for a headstone. Please contact us at <bottesfordww1centenary@gmail.com> if you have any further information about his war service.  

The information we have to date is given below and can also be found on the following web page: http://www.bottesfordhistory.org.uk/page_id__518_path__0p2p44p.aspx

Private Isaac Johnson, Northumberland Fusiliers

Whilst we have not been able to trace Isaac Johnson in any military records nor in the CWGC register we have found the following report in the Grantham Journal dated 9th November 1918. The date of his death in the article is given as the 20th October and he was buried in Muston Church yard, possibly on November 2nd 1918.

Death of a Muston Hero - Still another Muston soldier has given his life for King and Country, viz., Pte. Isac (sic) Johnson, who enlisted in the Royal Engineers on July 19th, 1917, and was attached later to the Northumberland Fusiliers. He went to France in January, 1918, being wounded five months later at Armentieres. He was removed to England to Hospital at Newcastle on August 12th, 1918, later being removed to the University College Hospital, London. Pte. Johnson had suffered very much from his wounds, so that the sad news of his death on October 20th was not unexpected. The funeral took place on Saturday, at Muston, several of his former workmates and friends following him to the grave to show their tribute of respect to him. Before the war, Pte. Johnson was a platelayer on the Sedgebrook length of the Great Northern Railway, Much sympathy is expressed to Mr. and Mrs. J. Johnson and family in their sad bereavement. Their other soldier son, Pte. D. Johnson, is on his way home from India. He has also been suffering from dysentery and malaria. (Courtesy of The Grantham Journal).

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