JOHNSON, ALFRED WILLIAM HENRY
Private T/133935
Royal Army Service Corps
(Driver)
Died 17-December-1941 aged 28
Midhurst district of Sussex
Son of Derek and Florence Johnson.
Husband of Gladys Lillian Johnson, of Pallion, Sunderland, Co. Durham.
Albert was born born 31 Aug 1913 in the Epsom registration district and his mother's maiden name was Folkard (the Folkards helped build Diceland Road and came to Banstead in the 1880s).
He married Gladys L Turner in Mid-Surrey district in Spring 1936
and their son Denis W was born in Mid-Surrey District Spring 1937.
Son Alfred R K (evidently known as Keith per CWGC) was born in Summer 1940 in Mid-Surrey.
The 1939 Register shows the family at
52 Diceland Road with Alfred working as a lorry driver.
Gladys is recorded as born on 13 Jun 1915 and in 1939 she was a domestic worker (the register shows the surname Johnson later changed to Hildrew suggesting she remarried after Alfred's death.
Alfred died in King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex, on 17th December 1941. He was 28 years old. He was a motor lorry driver serving in the R.A.S.C. (T/133935) and his address was recorded as 52 Diceland Road.
He died from pyelonephritis (a kidney/urinary tract infection) and abscesses on his spine and in his lungs. The cause of these is not recorded on his death certificate but as there is no mention of an operation (after which infection might have set in) it seems most likely that he picked up an E. Coli (or similar) infection somehow which spread throughout his body and overwhelmed him.
Grave location: North of Tower.
BANSTEAD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
Sources :
Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Churchyard, Banstead, Surrey.
1939 register
death certificate
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