JOHNSTON, Robert

Known as: 
Jock
Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
Service: 
Army
Number: 
2931826
Died : 
Thursday, June 4, 1942
Died on active service
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Corporal Robert Johnston 11 Commando
Corporal Robert Johnston died of exhaustion and malaria whilst assigned from the Commando to Middle East Detachment 2, later redesignated 2nd Special Service Detachment (SSD 2), in Burma. He has no known grave.
  • 9 June 1941 (Private) wounded during Operation Exporter at Litani River, Syria.
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Sources
CWGC
Casualty Lists 1941 / National Archives file WO417/27.
Casualty Lists / National Archives WO417/62.
His niece Mary Johnston.
 
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