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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.

 

Surname		JOHNSTON
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Archibald William
Regimental Number		71
Rank		Trooper
Unit Name		4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
State		SA
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Newbury1: WW1 AIF 15Bn. killed in action in France 17.10.1917. URL1: WW1 AIF 6795 Private 15Bn. killed in action Belgium 17.10.1917, enlisted Mt. Gambier SA. URL2: timber-getter from Palmwoods Qld. next of kin from Mt. Gambier SA. URL3: farmer aged 24 single.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 361 Newbury1: South Australians and the South African War page(s) 20 Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 1.5.1900
External Link URL1		www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL2		www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_32_2/pdf/0469.pdf
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54446916
External Link URL4		aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=155751

Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.

 

Colin Roe
Canberra

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