Corporal Arthur Daniel Johnson

Husband of Bessie Maude Johnson (later named Thomson in Victoria, British Columbia).

Joined the 77th Battalion, CEF, in Ottawa, Ontario, on 19 August 1915 (number 145055) - appointed Company Quartermaster-Sergeant in "C" Company - departed Canada for overseas on 19 June 1916 - taken on the strength of the 38th Battalion, CEF, as a Corporal in England on 6 July 1916 - landed in France with the 38th Battalion on 13 August 1916 - killed in action on 27 March 1918 - buried in Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension (grave II.D.16), France.

(sources: Library and Archives Canada (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca), online attestation papers; Canadian War Museum, 19740281-001, Manu 58F 2 3, 207th Canadian Infantry Battalion and 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Nominal Roll; The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa Regimental Museum, A400-0007, Master Personnel List for the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force; Commonwealth War Graves Commission, "Debt of Honour" register, www.cwgc.org; Anonymous, An Historical Sketch of the Seventy-Seventh Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force (Ottawa: War Publications Limited, 1926), p.113)