Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal C. Johnson, Royal Marine Brigade, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 24 May 1915

1914 Star (PO.14377. Corpl. C. Johnson, R.M. Brigade.); British War and Victory Medals (PO.14377 Cpl. C. Johnson. R.M.L.I.) good very fine (3) £160-£200

Clive Johnson was born in Kensington, London, on 24 December 1880, and attested for the Royal Marine Light Infantry in the Plymouth Division on 30 November 1900. He transferred to the Chatham Division on 9 May 1904, and then to the Portsmouth Division on 16 January 1907, and served in H.M.S. Exmouth during the operations following the Messina Earthquake in 1908. He was discharged on 29 November 1912, after 12 years’ service. Following the outbreak of the Great War he re-enlisted in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and served in the Chatham Battalion, Royal Marine Brigade, on the Western Front at Dunkirk and the Defence of Antwerp in 1914. He was killed in action in the Gallipoli theatre of War on 24 May 1915 (although some records give the date of his death as 30 May 1915), and having no known grave is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.