Biography

Described as 20 years old with fair hair, hazel eyes, 5’ 7 ½ tall and weighing 11 stone 12 pounds at enlistment with AIF. Nowhere in his war record is his date of birth indicated (or required it would seem).

1915: JOHNSON- On the 21st May, killed in action at the Dardanelles (according to his Service record he was killed at Gallipolli on the first day of the Anzac landing: 25 Apr 1915), Frank Thomas Johnson, late of Myrtle Road, East Camberwell, beloved grandson of Mrs. Mary Quennell and the late William Thomas Quennell; beloved nephew of Alice, Millicent and Alfred Quennell, "Kennington" 7 Weinberg grove,' Hawthorn.
Died nobly.
(Source:1915 'Family Notices.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 5 June, p. 13, viewed 10 November, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1522149)

The Dardanelles is a narrow strait bordering the Gallipoli peninsula and connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Mamara. The Bosporus is another strait connecting the Sea of Mamara to the Black Sea.
Facts
  • MAY 1894 - Birth - ; Richmond, Victoria, Australia
  • 25 APR 1915 - Death - ; Gallipoli, Turkey
  • 1914 - Residence - ; ‘Nyora’, 5 Myrtle Rd, Canterbury, Victoria
  • Education - Canterbury State School, Swinburne Technical College
  • Occupation - Engineer apprentice for 4 years prior to WW1 with James Alston of Queens Bridge
  • Religion - Methodist
  • 1914 - Residence - ; ‘Nyora’, 5 Myrtle Rd, Canterbury, Victoria
Ancestors
   
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Frank Thomas JOHNSON
MAY 1894 - 25 APR 1915
  
 
  
William Thomas QUENNELL
11 OCT 1836 - 3 APR 1912
 
 
Jessie Louise QUENNELL
7 SEP 1860 - 19 OCT 1932
  
  
  
Mary BRUCE
7 OCT 1842 - 3 MAY 1919
 
Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (M) Thomas JOHNSON
Birth
Death
Marriage1886to Jessie Louise QUENNELL at Victoria, Australia
Father?
Mother?
PARENT (F) Jessie Louise QUENNELL
Birth7 SEP 1860Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Death19 OCT 1932 11 Brynmawr Rd, South Camberwell, Victoria
Marriage1886to Thomas JOHNSON at Victoria, Australia
FatherWilliam Thomas QUENNELL
MotherMary BRUCE
CHILDREN
MFrank Thomas JOHNSON
BirthMAY 1894Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Death25 APR 1915Gallipoli, Turkey
FOlive JOHNSON
Birth
Death
MWilliam JOHNSON
Birth
Death
FEdith JOHNSON
Birth
Death
MBruce JOHNSON
Birth
Death
FMuriel JOHNSON
Birth
Death
FJessie JOHNSON
Birth
Death

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