Monday 18 July 2016

Ambrose Johnson 1896 - 1917

Ambrose Johnson
Barnsley Independent 31st March 1917
with thanks to Barnsley Archives
Born: 1896 in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire             

Military Service:

Regiment and Battalion: 2nd Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
Service number and Rank: 14/1451 Private
Awards: The British War Medal and the Victory Medal

Death:   18th March 1917 aged 21
Buried:   Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, in France
Grave Reference: 1.O.37

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Son of Edward and Flora Johnson of Barnsley and the husband of Mary Jane Johnson of 34 John Edward Street, Honeywell Street, Barnsley
  
Remembered:
St Marys Church Barnsley Combined War Memorial

Links & Notes:
Lives of the First World War
British Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Information from Ancestry:

Ambrose Johnson aged 19 married Mary Jane Bedford aged 20, on the 23rd August 1915 at St Georges Parish Church, Barnsley.


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