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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Johnson John
|Army number=4454538
|Rank=Private
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry as a Territorial - exact date not known but early in 1939.  Posted to the ? 8th Battalion. 
Posted to the 11th Battalion - possibly on 1/9/1939.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Reported missing - date not given.  Previously reported missing, now reported not missing.  Returned to the UK.  Discharged 22/11/1940 under the 1940 King's Regulations Para 390 (xvi) implying he was not physically fit enough for further service.
|Company/Battery=Not yet ascertained.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Not yet confirmed.
|Task or role=Not yet known bu probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known, but possibly 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=No details yet.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known, but this may be possible, given his early discharge.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=No family information as yet. 
}}


Private Johnson's name came up through the 1942 "missing " exercise conducted by the War Office and documented at The National Archives. 

Family information would be most valuable in tracing the elements of his military career.