Donald Frederic Goold JOHNSON. Born March 6, 1890, Saffron Walden, England. Educated at Caterham School & Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he converted to Roman Catholicism and won the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse with a 14-stanza poem "The Southern Pole", on Capt Scott's expedition. At the outbreak of war he abandoned plans for writing a study of Chaucer and was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He was sent to France in late 1915 and joined the Battalion at Sailly-Laurette on the Somme, a few miles east of Amiens. Lt Johnson participated in the opening of the Battle of the Somme in July. On the 15th, during the action to take Ovillers, while holding a trench against a German counter-attack, Johnson was killed.