CAPT. WM. H. JOHNSON
$ WINS THE MILITARY CROSS. Captain Johnson, late harbourmaster in Wellington, received a cable message yesterday to say that his son, Captain William Howard Johnson, who left here as a lieutenant in the Sixth Howitzer Battery, Fifth Contingent, was promoted to bo captain on tho field in Flanders, and lias been awarded thß Military Cross, and is now posted to be acting--major, and officer in charge of the battery. ■, ' ' Captain Johnson left New Zealand, as a lieutenant, and on his captain being wounded at Gallipoli, he was appointed acting-captain, and as such went forward to France in the. battery. His superior officer was killed in the Somme battle, and the Wellington man was there, and then made captain. .He was in London when he cabled having won the Military Cross, which indicates that his rapid promotion Is not a matter of seniority only.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 6
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146CAPT. WM. H. JOHNSON Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 6
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