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Cyril Ben Hamlyn JOHNSON

Regimental number3333
Place of birthYarram Yarram,Victoria
SchoolWesley College
Other training2 years Melbourne University Rifles (Corp)
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationStudent
AddressSouth Gippsland, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinFather, B P Johnson, Yarram Yarram, South Gippsland, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed in the Senior Cadets and Melbourne University Regiment (Citizen Military Forces).
Enlistment date5 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll12 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name6th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/23/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 11 October 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll6th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularEnlisted June 1915 after having been twice rejected. Had been strongly recommended for a commission and warned that he was to go to England to the O.T.C. immediately. Served in Egypt as well as France and Belgium. (Father)
FateKilled in Action 14 May 1918
Place of death or woundingnear Strazeele, Merris Front
Age at death24
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialOuttersteene Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot I, Row F, Grave No. 21), Bailleul, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
47
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Ben Percival and Emily Kate JOHNSON, Yarram Yarram, Victoria
Family/military connectionsCousin: Captain V.C. Brown MC and Bar. Had relatives in the AIF, the British, the Canadian and the American Forces. My only eligible son.

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