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Revision as of 08:37, 30 December 2011
Captain Robert Warren Johnson, Royal Navy (10 May, 1868 – 22 September, 1914) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
Life & Career
Johnson scored 1,362 marks in the competitive examinations for cadetships in the Royal Navy, coming first out of his batch of twenty.[1]
Johnson was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 1 April, 1891.[2]
He married on 11 July, 1906, Grace Isobel, fourth daughter of the late Algernon Paley, and had two sons and one daughter. He was lost in action September 22, 1914, when the H.M.S. Cressy, of which he was the captain, was torpedoed in the North sea engagement.
Footnotes
- ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Monday, 27 June, 1881. Issue 30231, col E, pg. 8.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 26149. p. 1870. 3 April, 1891.
Bibliography
Service Records
- The National Archives. ADM 196/89.
- The National Archives. ADM 196/42.
