COLONEL IN THE RANKS.

Shannon News, 31 December 1923, Page 3

COLONEL IN THE RANKS.

ENLISTED . AS A PKIVAt'E,

Onco a lieutenant-colonel, now a lance-corporal, the son ot a kn lo ht and the holder ot the C.D.h. ana int D S.O—thla was part of the life storj of Walter Kussell Johnson, aged »4 as told by himself at the Westminstel Police Court in London recently. Kussell a lance-corpora in the Las Surrey Regiment, • was charged with imp.SU .behaviour at the Victoria Palace. He emphatically denied the charges. . , He was a son, he said, ot the late Sir Walter Johnson. At the outbreak of th* war he was senior captain In the 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force), and saw service in Gallipoli. Egypt and France,' where hecommanded a Battalion of the Essex

Regiment. .. Later he was in North Russia where he was commanding officer on the lines of communication to the Archangel force. After"the evacuation he was atfcacnt'o the Indian Army, and did duty i* India- and Mesopotamia. For his services during <he war he was awarded the D. 5.0.. and made a C.B.E. Three times he was mentioned in despatches, and retired with llie rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Territorial Force. In .February last he enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment with a vk-w to obtaining a commission in. the Regular Army. He had been recommended for a commission. ' Johnson was sent l'or trial, hail ha ■ lug allowed.