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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
}}

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-[[File:5ec6dff5-1773-4ea1-b47a-e9e448095064.jpeg|400px|thumb|left|PoW Group 1]]
+[[File:5ec6dff5-1773-4ea1-b47a-e9e448095064.jpeg|400px|thumb|left|James in the front row, second from left in PoW Group 1]]
-[[File:032267f7-785c-4c21-8bf3-e0ce0b21f562.jpeg|400px|thumb|right|PoW Group 2]]
+[[File:032267f7-785c-4c21-8bf3-e0ce0b21f562.jpeg|400px|thumb|right|James in the middle of second row in PoW Group 2]]
 [[File:C_Coy_1TS_prior_to_embarkation_to_B_E_F.jpeg|800px|thumb|centre|C Company 13th April 1940]]

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 |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=Father - William Charles Johnson (1873 - 1958).  Mother Annie Meston (1877 - ? ).  Lived at 12, 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.
+|Home address=Father - William Charles Johnson (1873 - 1958).  Mother Annie Meston (1877 - ? ).  Lived at 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.  Married Sylvia Mary Bond at St Stephen's Church, Scotswood Road, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne.
 |Source table=1TS
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