IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
IN MEMORY OF OUR BAXENDEN LADS
1914 - 1918
& 1939 - 1946
Wm. Turner - November 1994 |
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10450 HARRY JOHNSON 26th October 1918 |
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Introduction
ANDERSON, William ANDERTON, John Henry BAILEY, Harry BARNES, James Albert BATES, Thomas Henry BOLTON, Jack BOND, Harry Hargreaves BRANDON, Tom BURY, Percy CHEVIN, William Thomas DOBSON, Walter DOWNES, Joseph DUCKWORTH, Frank DUCKWORTH, John (Jack) Pilkington GORE, Elias GREENWOOD, James HAMBLING, Benjamin George HAMBLING, Charles Buckingham HAWKER, William HEYS, James Edward HEYS, John Lawson HINDLE, Arnold JOHNSON, Harry KENYON, Ernest LIVETT, John William MARSDEN, Fred MOSS, James RATCLIFFE, Fred RUSHTON, Fred SKELLERN, John James SMITH, James Edward STOTT, Fred TODD, Walter Counsell WATERWORTH, David WHITEHEAD, John William WHITEHEAD, Riley
CUCKNELL, Alan
Accrington Pals
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PTE. 10450 HARRY JOHNSON of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment died of pneumonia on October 26th 1918. He was twenty nine years old and lived with his parents James and Alice Johnson at 482 Manchester Road, Baxenden. Nothing is known of the circumstances of Harry's death, but it is probable he succumbed in the influenza epidemic which swept Europe in 1918 and 1919. Many soldiers died of influenza or pneumonia because battlefield wounds and service in the trenches weakened their health and resistance. Harry died in the 2,000 bed Norfolk War Hospital at Thorpe, near Norwich. His parents, as was their right, brought him home to be buried in St. John's Churchyard, Baxenden. He is, alone of the thirty six World War One casualties named on the War Memorial, in a family grave, not a war grave. His father James died in 1922, his mother Alice in 1931, and are buried with him. |
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