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Steam road transport crossing a spruit

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=78#94196

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

CBE (Military) Commander’s 1st type badge, gold (18ct) and enamel;
DSO GV, gold (18ct) and enamel, with integral top gold riband bar;
QSA (1) Orange Free State;
British War and Victory Medals, with small full-sized MID;
France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Officer’s breast badge, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, with rosette on riband

CBE London Gazette 12 December 1919.
DSO London Gazette 1 June 1917.
MID London Gazette 23 July 1917.
French Legion of Honour, Officer London Gazette 17 March 1920.

Philip Henry Johnson was born in 1877 and served with the Steam Road Transport Department as assistant to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of Steam Transport in South Africa during the Boer War.


WO100/155p102

Employed by the Ministry of Munitions following the outbreak of the Great War, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 20 April 1916, and served with 711 Motor Transport Company during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 September 1916. He transferred to ‘A” Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps as a Workshop Officer on 18 November 1916, and then to the Tank Corps; with a background in heavry machinery and traction engines, by the end of the War he had risen to the rank of temporary Lieutenant-Colonel and was employed as a Superintendent in the Tank Design and Experimental Department. Post-War he directed the development of the Medium ‘Mark D’ Tank which achieved a top speed of 20 mph.