SNIPER’S VICTIM.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7920, 18 August 1917, Page 3

SNIPER’S VICTIM.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHNSTON’S DEATH. (Special from the Official War Correspondent). August 7. Brigadier-General F. E. Johnston was killed this morning in the front line near Warneton by a sniper’s bullet, death being instantaneous. He had lately been in command of the Infantry Reserve group in England, and had only been a few days back in the trenches. Yesterday evening he attended a conference at Divisional Headquarters, and to his old friends had expressed his delight at getting back to the front again. He was a very brave soldier, and scorned danger. He was killed on the morning of the second anniversary of his former brigade’s attack on Chunuk Bair, on which occasion he fearlessly exposed himself in launching the assault. His family is one that has not spared itself in this war, four of his brothers, one of whom was killed, having enlisted. The funeral takes place to-morrow in the cemetery where Brigadier-General Brown was buried.