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Details of soldier killed in WW1
« on: Thursday 23 November 17 16:03 GMT (UK) »
Is it possible please for someone to find the details or records of Rifleman S2135 Thomas Victor Johnson, 11th Service Battalion The Rifle Brigade, killed on the Somme 18th Sept. 1916.
he was born July 1897 and lived at Bramhall Street, Warrington.

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Re: Details of soldier killed in WW1
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 November 17 16:16 GMT (UK) »
he was born July 1897 and lived at Bramhall Street, Warrington.

Where was he born

Ignore that -  F M P have the record but they have indexed it as born Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Re: Details of soldier killed in WW1
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 November 17 16:31 GMT (UK) »
His records are also on Ances..y

Also a picture of him on www.findagrave.com

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Re: Details of soldier killed in WW1
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 November 17 16:56 GMT (UK) »
The CWGC record is here: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/796322/johnson,-thomas-victor/  They have his number slightly wrong it was S/2135.

He was reported missing on 18 Sep 1916 after an unsuccessful attack in the area east of Longueval.  His date is officially "presumed dead on or since 18 Sep 1916" hence his commemoration on the Thiepval memorial to the missing.

The attack was on the trench line that can be seen on the link below on the left hand map running diagonally top left to bottom right approx in square T3.  The present day map is on the right.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=14&lat=50.0315&lon=2.8203&layers=101464777&right=BingHyb

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Re: Details of soldier killed in WW1
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 28 November 17 15:39 GMT (UK) »
algy

Hopefully the info that you presumably have seen was of use?

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Re: Details of soldier killed in WW1
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 28 November 17 21:43 GMT (UK) »
I apologies for not answering the comments that you have posted it is very remiss of me and I thank you all for the replies to my request for information of which has been very useful to me, thank you again, algy.