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Robert Noel Johnson

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert Noel AWMM
  • Surname
    Johnson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Noel Johnson AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 13/197 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    17 December 1881 AWMM Louth, County Louth AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre Aug 1914 AWMM Otamatea, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
    School teacher/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Edward Johnson (father), The Mount, Seaton, Devon, England AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 16 October 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 13/197 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
    Two month's training at Potters Paddock, Ellerslie, Auckland. AWMM
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Aug 1914 AWMM
    Age 32 AWMM
    School teacher/Civilian AWMM
    AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Suffered from bronchial pneumonia at Gallipoli. AWMM
    • Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
      Admitted to Walton-on-Thames NZ Hospital, England. AWMM
    • Died from Natural Causes, Cause of Death AWMM
      Natural causes AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Private Johnson embarked with the Main Body along with his horse.

    He met his wife, Mary Meta Callender, while a patient at Walton-on-Thames Hospital. She was a VAD nurse there at the time. They were married in 1917 after he was invalided home to New Zealand.

    A leather satchel (with metal plates) has been donated to the Auckland War Memorial Museum. AWMM

Death

About death

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  • Death
    1 September 1965 AWMM
    Age 83 AWMM
    AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died from Natural Causes AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Cremated at Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Ashes scattered AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald, circa 4 September 1965 AWMM
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

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Memorial

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Sources

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  • External links
  • References
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
      Correspondence with family AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 371 AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald, circa 4 September 1965 AWMM
    • Palmer, Margaret E. World War I autograph album, 1916. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2005-19. AWMM
      World War I autograph album containing the signatures of 70 New Zealand soldiers at No. 2 NZ General Hospital, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1916. AWMM

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