Private Ernest Johnson

Army Number: 11924

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Lived at 73, Norton Street, Radford, Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Selina Johnson, of 20, Wimbourne Road, Radford, Nottingham. He was a blind maker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action on 5th July 1916, aged 21, in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Ernest Johnson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Nicholas Church War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Edward Johnson, 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.