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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
Norway
Death:
October 3, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 4.
Additional information
Son of Charles I. and Edine Johnson, of Ashern, Manitoba. Native of Norway.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Hugh Stanley Johnson
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Lt. Hugh Stanley Johnson of the 24th Infantry Battalion (5th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division) was killed in action during "Canada's Hundred Days" on October 3, 1918 near Tilloy, France (Map Reference 51a.S.20.a.8.2). An enemy shell burst in the fire trench close to his location. He was mortally wounded and died in a few minutes. -
Grave Marker
Lts. Ralph Lincoln Weaver (Grave 2.C.4) and Hugh Stanley Johnson (Grave 2.C.5) of the 24th Infantry Battalion are buried beside each other in the Haynecourt British Cemetery near Cambrai, France (Map Reference 51b.X.15.b.3.3). -
Newspaper clipping
From the Free Press Prairie Farmer newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Free Press Prairie Farmer newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Hugh Stanley Johnson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Stanley Johnson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Stanley Johnson
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hugh Stanley Johnson
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Commemorated on:
Page 437 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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