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Title: WW1 Medal help please.
Post by: ALAMO2008 on Monday 20 September 21 14:50 BST (UK)

CWGC site shows A/Cpl 48846 William Ernest Johnson of 12th King's KIA 16 August 1917

Yet Service Medal cards and this Card show a W Johnson 48846 in Labour Corps as well and Discharged 20/05/1918 on Disability

Am I mixing up two different Soldiers please?

He married Ethel May Mullin and had sons
George Ernest 1913
Wilfred 1914
Alfred 1915

Title: Re: WW1 Medal help please.
Post by: Rockford on Monday 20 September 21 15:11 BST (UK)

Hello

As you have someone who was KIA and someone who survived, it looks to me that the shared name and number is a coincidence, and that they are two separate people.

I don't know about now, but in WW1 I believe that the service numbers were allocated a regimental level, so it was possible for soldiers in different regiments to have the same service number.

Have you found any records for A/CPl Johnson of the 12th King's?

Best wishes

Rockford

Title: Re: WW1 Medal help please.
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 20 September 21 15:41 BST (UK)

Yes you are mixing up two different people. The one who survived was a William L Johnson. His labour Corps number 46646, but he had previously served in the Works Battalion of the Liverpool Regiment, number 41784. 

Title: Re: WW1 Medal help please.
Post by: ALAMO2008 on Monday 20 September 21 15:44 BST (UK)

Thanks Rockford and ShaunJ

Thought that was the case.

Had seen Service Number used by someone of a different name and Regt never such a close match hence seeking your advice.

Cheers

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