Alexander JOHNSTON

JOHNSTON, Alexander. Rifleman 16382, 2nd Service Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles killed in action on the 24th March 1918. He was the son of Alexander and Mary Jane of 18 Saul Street, Downpatrick, formerly in 1901, 8, Hollymount, County Down and brother of Hugh who also fell in the Great War. Register of Soldiers Effects (Ancestry) shows that his mother Mary Jane was granted a war gratuity on the 13th September 1919. He is commemorated on a family memorial in Down Cathedral, New Cemetery, County Down, Northern Ireland and on an Addenda Panel on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.