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Military service
Service number:
216765
Age:
20
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
78th Bn.
Birth:
July 14, 1896
Death:
April 6, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. J. 3.
Additional information
Brother of Mrs. W. J. Hatcher, of Sioux Lookout, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Johnston
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This letters author, Angus Peter Murchison #211030 78th Battalion, was a friend of Tommy Johnson #216765. It tells of poor Tommy Johnston being fatally hit. Angus was later killed in action on the morning of the attack on Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917, just a few days after his friend Tommy was killed. Note that the letter is dated March 7, 1917. Tommy was KIA, according to this web site, on April 6, 1917, so either Angus got the month wrong on the date of his letter or the clerk recording the KIA date got the month wrong. At any rate, all that remains of these men are a few bits of paper such as this letter, so we must prize it in their memory. This letter does not discuss it, but in another letter, it is said that Angus went out, at great risk to himself, to bring in the body of his friend Tommy for burial. J. Bargholz
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Page 264 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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