JOHNSON, Denis Alan
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Berkshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5113068
Died :
Saturday, December 27, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
21
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Operations:
Private Denis Johnson died during operations at Vaagso, Norway. Son of Edward Alfred and Ruby Helen Johnson. Denis was an old boy of Wrekin College, Shropshire, and formerly a playing member of Wolverhampton Rugby Football Club. He enlisted in 1940 and also took part in the Lofotens Raid*.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/36.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
* Report on his death in the Staffordshire Advertiser 10 January 1942.
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