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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Johnson James Meston
|Army number=4459389
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry at Darlington on 17/1/1940.  Posted to the 12th Battalion DLI. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940 and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Wounded and taken Prisoner of War - probably 20/5/1940, although the exact date is not recorded.  Repatriated as part of a group of wounded to the UK. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 1/9/44 as unfit for further service due to the severity of his injury.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Born 12/10/1917.
|Age=59 at the time of his death.  
|Company/Battery=C Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=17/1/1940.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes - right arm injured in the battle for Ficheux and Mercatel and subsequently amputated.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 23/1/1977 aged 59.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - held in Stalag VIII B, PoW Number 37.
|Home address=52, Hawes St. Newcastle 4.  Worked as a time- served Painter and Decorator - a career to which he returned post-war, despite being right-handed and having lost his right arm. 
|Source table=1TS
}}