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(courtesy of " Ron Stewart)
Grave marker for John A. Johnston in Merchants
Hope Memorial Park, Prince George (Prince George county), Virginia.
His wife Veronica rests beside him.
John enlisted at Hopewell, VA; on 3 February 1941
prior to the enactment of the draft law and therefore registered for
the draft post-war in Hopewell, Hopewell, VA on 23 October 1945.kist
nine days after his discharge.
Pfc Johnston was transferred from Hq Field
Force Replacement Depot #3 to Company A, 508th PIR on 31 March 1944.
He was seriously wounded in action as of 13 June
1944 and evacuated to a field hospital.
On 27 September 1944, still not recovered, he was
transferred to the hospital's detachment of patients.
He was discharged on 14 October 1945.
Wasting no time, he married Veronica Beata
Dauenhauer in Washington, District of Columbia on 10 November 1945.
Perhaps he met her while hospitalized at Bethesda, MD or other
hospitals treating wounded men..
John succumbed to Bronchogenic Carcinoma (lung cancer) with
metastasis on 3 July 1987.
Veronica survived him by five years and now rests
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