About: William Henry Johnston

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: William Henry Johnston Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:MilitaryPerson, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FWilliam_Henry_Johnston&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

William Henry Johnston VC (21 December 1879 – 8 June 1915) was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His citation read: At Missy, on 14th Sept., under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., worked with his own hand two rafts bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition; thus enabling advanced Brigade to maintain its position across the river. — The London Gazette, No. 28985, 25 November 1914

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing military person
rdfs:label	William Henry Johnston (fr) William Henry Johnston (en)
rdfs:comment	William Henry Johnston, né le 21 décembre 1879 à Leith et mort le 8 juin 1915 à Ypres, est un militaire britannique, récipiendaire de la Croix de Victoria pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Johnston est capitaine puis major dans la 59e compagnie des Royal Engineers dans l'armée britannique. Il est décoré pour acte de bravoure lors de la course à la mer. Sa Croix de Victoria est exposée au (en). (fr) William Henry Johnston VC (21 December 1879 – 8 June 1915) was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. His citation read: At Missy, on 14th Sept., under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., worked with his own hand two rafts bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition; thus enabling advanced Brigade to maintain its position across the river. — The London Gazette, No. 28985, 25 November 1914 (en)
differentFrom	William Henry Johnson (disambiguation)
name	William Henry Johnston (en)
foaf:depiction
death place	St. Eloi, Belgium (en)
birth place	Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland (en)
dcterms:subject	1879 births 1915 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I Military personnel from Edinburgh Royal Engineers officers People from Leith Burials at Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross
Wikipage page ID	1228019 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1047370576 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Royal Engineers Royal Engineers Museum Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery United Kingdom Victoria Cross 172nd Tunnelling Company 177th Tunnelling Company Commonwealth of Nations The London Gazette Missy-sur-Aisne Monuments to Courage The Register of the Victoria Cross The Sapper VCs Leith Major Sint-Elooi Ypres Ypres Salient Scotland's Forgotten Valour 1879 births 1915 deaths British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I Military personnel from Edinburgh Royal Engineers officers British Armed Forces British Army People from Leith Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers Western Front (World War I) Edinburgh First World War Burials at Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross Chatham, Kent Kent Race to the Sea Second Battle of Ypres World War I Captain (land and air) Corps of Royal Engineers VCs of the First World War - 1914 St. Eloi
sameAs	William Henry Johnston William Henry Johnston William Henry Johnston William Henry Johnston
serviceyears	1899 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:! dbt:Authority_control dbt:Birth_date dbt:Convert dbt:Distinguish dbt:Find_a_Grave dbt:Flag dbt:KIA dbt:Quote dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Army dbt:Death_date_and_age dbt:Postnominals dbt:Infobox_military_person
thumbnail	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/VCWilliamHenryJohnston.jpg?width=300
awards	Victoria Cross
battles	World War I * Western Front Race to the Sea Second Battle of Ypres (en)
birth date	1879-12-21 (xsd:date)
death date	1915-06-08 (xsd:date)
image size	175 (xsd:integer)
rank	Major (en)
unit	Royal Engineers
has abstract	William Henry Johnston, né le 21 décembre 1879 à Leith et mort le 8 juin 1915 à Ypres, est un militaire britannique, récipiendaire de la Croix de Victoria pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Johnston est capitaine puis major dans la 59e compagnie des Royal Engineers dans l'armée britannique. Il est décoré pour acte de bravoure lors de la course à la mer. Sa Croix de Victoria est exposée au (en). (fr) William Henry Johnston VC (21 December 1879 – 8 June 1915) was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Born 21 December 1879 in Leith, Edinburgh to Maj. William Johnston and Mary Johnston. Johnston was a captain in the 59th Field Company, Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army. He was 34 years old, on 14 September 1914 during the Race to the Sea at Missy, France, in the First World War, he performed an act of bravery for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. His citation read: At Missy, on 14th Sept., under a heavy fire all day until 7 p.m., worked with his own hand two rafts bringing back wounded and returning with ammunition; thus enabling advanced Brigade to maintain its position across the river. — The London Gazette, No. 28985, 25 November 1914 Johnston afterwards served with the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers at St Eloi in the Ypres Salient. Mining activity by the Royal Engineers began at St Eloi in early 1915. The Germans exploded mines under the area known as The Mound just south-east of St Eloi in March 1915 and in the ensuing fighting the British suffered some 500 casualties. A month later, on 14 April 1915, the Germans fired another mine producing a crater over 20 metres (66 ft) in diameter. Much of the British tunnelling in this sector was done by the 177th and 172nd Tunnelling Company, the latter commanded in early 1915 by Captain William Henry Johnston VC. Johnston left 172nd Tunnelling Company in early May and was killed in action at Ypres on 8 June 1915. He eventually achieved the rank of major. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham, Kent. (en)
placeofburial	Perth (China Wall) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:William_Henry_Johnston?oldid=1047370576&ns=0

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 60 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software