| Accession Number | P09291.206 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Digital print |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Date made | c 1916 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Portrait of Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Edwin Campbell Johnson, 32nd Battalion. A clerk from ...
Description
Portrait of Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Edwin Campbell Johnson, 32nd Battalion. A clerk from Glenelg, South Australia, prior to enlistment with the 16th Reinforcements of the 10th Battalion, he attended the Military College Duntroon, and was commissioned on 10 May 1916. 2nd Lt Johnson was then re-assigned to the 9th Reinforcements of the 32nd Battalion which embarked at Adelaide aboard HMAT Commonwealth on 21 September 1916 for Plymouth, England. Following training in England he joined his battalion in the field near Montauban, France, in late January 1917 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 10 June 1917. Lt Johnson was killed in action at Polygon Wood on 30 September 1917 and is interred in the Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, Belgium. He was aged 25 years. His older brother Major James Alexander Campbell Johnson was killed in action near Bapaume, France, on 21 August 1918 after enlisting in the King's Liverpool Regiment in England in 1914.