William Walker Johnson

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Harry and Ethel Johnson (nee Webster), of Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

Gerald Odlin was the Staff Pilot on a navigation exercise with Pilot William Johnson, in a Harvard. At 13.35 hrs they were seen falling through the cloud in a spin, from which they did not recover, crashing off Paraparaumu Beach. [For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Volume 1, Page 282]

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Casualty

Service Number:

411034

Name:

William Walker Johnson

Date of Birth:

01 January 1970

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

18 December 1942

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Auckland Provincial Memorial

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand