Johnny Johnson

Alexander Percival Johnson DSO (died 12 June 1944, aged 32), known as Johnny Johnson, was a British Army officer.

The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Alexander Johnson and Constance Bertha Johnson, Alexander was born in 1911. He was educated in Switzerland where he took up skiing and climbing before later attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

From Sandhurst, Johnson was originally commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in the 1931 and qualified at the Staff College, Camberley at decade later.

In the afternoon of 12 June, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was ordered to hastily prepare his battalion for an attack on the village of Bréville (currently named Bréville-les-Monts). At 21:45, the battalion assembled on the start line near Amfréville and an artillery barrage on enemy positions near Bréville began. Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was conferring with a group of senior officers when he was killed by a stray artillery round. Also wounded by the blast were Brigadier Hugh Kindersley and Colonel Reginald Parker of 6th Airlanding Brigade and Brigadier The Lord Lovat of 1st Special Service Brigade.