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{{Personnel
|id=2423
|Surname and forenames=Johnson Oliver Denn
|Army number=292012
|Rank=Lt
|Date of birth=Birth registered April 1919 at Bury St Edmunds - mother's maiden surname Oliver.
|Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 21/12/1944.  Recommended for DSO but awarded MC.
|Age=25 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined the Royal Artillery - Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 21/8/1943.  Attached to the Suffolk Regiment 11/12/1943.  Attached to The Durham Light Infantry 6/7/1944, posted 11th Battalion DLI.  With the Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944.  Attached to the Devonshire Regiment, posted 2nd Battalion on the disbandment of 70th Brigade.  KILLED in ACTION 3/10/44 with the 2nd Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment.
|Joined Brigade=06-Jul-44.
|Company/Battery=B Company.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander.
|Died/Killed in action=03-Oct-44.  Initially interred in the Dent Burial Ground - map reference 712653 - and then re-buried on 10/9/1945 in Grave 9. C. 15. Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.  Cross on the headstone but no inscription.
|Home address=Son of Reginald Oliver Denn Johnson and Marjorie Morgan Johnson, of Barrow, Suffolk.  
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Because of his attachment to the Devonshire Regiment at the time he was killed, Lt Johnson is not included on the DLI Roll of Honour in Durham Cathedral.