WWII Casualties List

Name: Lorimer Leigh Johnson Rank: Private Service Number: F/45285 Service: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) Date Of Birth: February 12, 1917 Place of Birth: Hazel Hill, Guysborough, Co., NS Date of Enlistment: July 23, 1940 Place of Enlistment: Mulgrave, NS Address at Enlistment: Hazel Hill, Guysborough, Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 24 Height: 5 feet, 6 inches Complexion: Dark Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Trade: Labourer Martial Status: Married Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Hattie Johnson (Wife) Hazel Hill, Guysborough, Co., NS Date of Death: April 21, 1945 Age: 29 Cemetery: Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Commemorated on Page 528 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on November 7 Lorimer Leigh Johnson was the son of James and Laura Johnson, husband of Hattie Allieta (Bennett) Johnson (1917-1979), of Canso, NS. Lorimer and Hattie were married on August 15, 1938 in Canso, NS. and the father of Howard, Russell, and Ralph. Lorimer was the brother of Russell, Benjamin, Jack, James, Vernon, Rueben, Dora, Ida May, Lorena, Murel, and Edith. He initially enlisted with the Pictou Highlanders and trained in Canada until July 20, 1944 and disembarked in the UK on July 29, 1944. He departed England on August 29, 1944 and landed in France on August 30, 1944 and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada on September 1, 1944. On October 20, 1944 he was wounded and hospitalized and after a second admission to hospital returned to his unit on February 15, 1945 and served with the unit until his death on April 21, 1945. He was initially buried two hundred feet south of the bridge on the main road in Oldenburg, Friesoythe, Germany and reburied in the Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands in 1946. Lorimer was born Lorimer Leigh Johnson. On his military records, he later spelled his middle name as 'Lee'

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Lorimer Johnson's sons (left to right) Howard, Ralph and Russell.

Lorimer Lee Johnson and wife Hattie

Johnson (left)