Cecil Frederick B Johnson
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Gunner 163213
Parents: Samuel Albert and Ellen Johnson
Marital status: Married
Home address: Home Address: 6 Queens Road, St, George, Bristol. Lived: 99A Redland Road, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Clerk
Date of birth: 1890
Place of birth: Bitton, Bristol
Date of death: 03/06/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried Bristol (Avonview) Cemetery. Not commemorated on a local memorial
Age: 28
Further information:
Cecil was born in Bitton the son of a bootmaker and the youngest child of seven with two brothers and four sisters. He married Florence Kate Ford in the Spring of 1917, about a year before he died, and their daughter Joyce was born in February 1918. Joyce was aged just 4 months when Cecil died.
As part of 6 Company, Royal Garrison Artillery, it is likely that Cecil would have been stationed in Gibraltar at some point during the war, helping to man the home defence. He returned to England and was serving on the home front when he died, a few months before the armistice, in a hospital in Edinburgh from acute gangrenous appendicitis.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
Some information supplied by Kingswood Heritage Museum