View source for Johnson Joseph Edwin Lieutenant 165875

{{Personnel
|id=2418
|Surname and forenames=Johnson Joseph Edwin
|Army number=165875
|Rank=Lt
|Date of birth=Born Sunderland 1919/20.
|Age=24
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 28/12/1940.  Posted to No 4 Infantry Training Centre, Brancepeth.  Posted 70th Bn DLI.  Re-posted to No 4 ITC.  Posted 8th Bn DLI.  Posted 11th Bn DLI 9/10/1943.  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION with 11th Bn Durham Light Infantry 27/6/1944.
|Joined Brigade=9/10/1943.
|Company/Battery=70th Bn - C Company then B Company.  No details available for 11th Bn.
|Task or role=Duty Officer.
|Promotions=W/S/ Lt 28/6/1942.
|Died/Killed in action=27-Jun-44.
|Home address=Resident of Sunderland.  Son of James Edwin and Alice Irene Johnson, husband of Sylvia Chris Johnson, Seaburn.  Buried Grave IV. D. 7. Fontenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel.
|Image Name=Johnson_J_E_11_DLI.JPG
|Image Title=Lt J E Johnson's CWGC headstone. 
|Source table=11DLI
}}

The McGregor Card Index shows Lt Johnson's Officer number to be 165675 - this appears to be a transcription error on the Card.    His Battalion records also show his number as 165675, while both the London Gazette and CWGC have him as 165875.  We have chosen to use this latter number.

For Lt Johnson's commemorative record please click [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2348194/JOHNSON,%20JOSEPH%20EDWIN here]