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4th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
18/04/1888
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| Died: |
10/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
28 |
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John E Johnston was the son of David Johnston J.P. Herbert was born in County Tyrone (probably Roughan, near Newmills) on 18th April 1888. In 1911 John Edwin Johnston was a student at Queen’s University, Belfast. The family lived at Grace Hall in Lurgan. 2nd Lieutenant John E Johnston was serving with the 4th Battalion attending the 10th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment when he died on 10th July 1916.
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The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
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