Robert Johnson is also remembered on the Connah’s Quay & Shotton WW2 War Memorial, please click on the link to read his story.
Hawarden Grammar School Admissions Register E/GS/1/10
1557/2151 JOHNSON,Robert Date of birth – 10th November 1919, Homedown, Wepre Drive, Connah’s Quay, date of Entry – 15th September 1913, Father – Engineer, Mold Rd. Cl., Sch. £3, T. 2.0.0., Bks 10/-Date of leaving 27th July 1934 – (I cannot decipher the writing so this is a guess! – Serg. Plumber?? – I know that he joined the Grenadiers Guards 7 years before he was killed in 1944, so he could have been a plumber before that.)
The Roll of Honour was dedicated at Hawarden Grammar School on the 3rd February 1951 with a Remembrance Service for the 47* former pupils who died in the 1939 – 1945 World War. As recorded in the Chester Chronicle Saturday 10th February 1951.
*Author’s note, there are 46 names on the Roll of Honour, clerical error by the newspaper.
