Leicester Grafton St Clair Johnson

Service number: 2920

Rank: Lance Corporal

Unit: 19th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Leicester Johnson was born at Summer Hill in 1892. He was employed by the Eastern Insurance Company, and was posted to their branches in Calcutta then Shanghai. He enlisted at Goulburn on 3 June 1916, giving as next of kin his sister, living at Mayville, 68 Pittwater Road, Manly.

He embarked on 25 October 1916 on the Ascanius, and served with the 19thBattalion.

He was wounded in France on 14 April 1917, and wounded again on 9 October 1917 in the hand, in Belgium. He was promoted to Lance-Corporal on 22 July 1918, but was gassed two days later.

After the war, he was discharged in London, where he was employed in the London offices of his company.