3.6.1917 LIEVIN SECTOR: 2/Lt LN JOHNSON MC killed in action whilst on working party (M.30.C.9.5).

1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]

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2nd Lieut. LN Johnson’s death occurred on the 3rd June while in charge of a working party in the Bois de Raiumont, when an advanced trench was being dug for the assembly position of the 138th Infantry Brigade, who attacked from there a few days later.

Johnson was one of the Battalion’s most popular officers……and his grave is in the little cemetery between Fosse 10 and Sains-en-Gohelle, where rest the bodies of a good many of the Battalion’s Rank and file.

1/6th Battalion Regimantal History

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Casualties from the 3rd June 1917

Alban Offord from Retford died aged 21

• 1658/240201 Sergt William Booth aged 26. 
• 4398/241494 Pte Harry Cooper aged 47.
• 5122/241864 Pte Harry Fuller aged 24.
• 7751/242541 Pte William Howitt-Walker.
• 2540/242605 Pte Walter Moxon aged 28.
• 1868/242606 Pte Alban Offord aged 21.
• Lieut Leslie Nethercote Johnson aged 29.

The men were buried in either Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension in Sains-en-Gohelle, which was the site of the North Midland Field Ambulance, or in Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery by the 7th Casualty Clearing Station.

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Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension

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Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery

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Other men wounded on this day

• 3665/241163 Pte ARTHUR BUXTON
• 2204/240467 Pte FRED HURLER
• 2563/240639 Pte ERNEST MATTHEWS
• 2277/240501 Pte FRANK DRABBLE
• 2867/240771 Pte ALBERT BAGSHAW
• 2609/240660 Pte ARTHUR COLLIER
• 3890/241264 Pte WALTER BLAIR
• 4215/241401 Pte WILLIAM SIMMONS
• 4190/241390 Pte JOHN HENRY CRYAN
• 4399/241495 Pte JAMES BLAKEMORE
• 3400/241053 Pte HERBERT STEEPLES
• 3302/242408 Pte ERNEST BRAZIER
• 7731/242521 Pte ARTHUR AUGUSTUS DEACON
• 7721/242511 Pte ARCHIBOLD BRANSON
• 4559/241568 Pte PERCY HARMER
• 5183/241874 Pte HERBERT TAYLOR
• 5809/242627 Pte RICHARD WEBB
• 2493/240602 Pte FRED MOORCROFT
• 4075/241346 Pte JIM RAMSKILL