Ernest Johnson (1895 - 1934) enlisted by November 1914 and was posted to Winchester to join the 11th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade as Private S/5957. This battalion had been formed just two months earlier as part of Kitchener’s Second New Army.

On 8th January 1915 Ernest was admitted to Connaught Hospital in Aldershot with rheumatism; he was discharged from the army on 26th March 1915 due to ill-health.

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