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| name         = Henry Johnson
| born         = {{birth date|1902|11|19}} - 2010 (aged 107 - 108)
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| placeofbirth = [[County Durham]], [[England]]
| placeofdeath = ???? (2010)
| allegiance   = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| branch       = [[Merchant Navy]]
| serviceyears = 1918 – 19??
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'''Henry Johnson''' (19 November, 1902 - 2010) was a [[World War I]]-era veteran who served for the Merchant Navy just after the war. 

==Biography ==

Henry was born in [[County Durham]] in 1902, one of seven children, two sisters and four brothers. In 1904, the family moved to a village near [[Sunderland]], where his father was an official at the local mine. After leaving school Henry spent time sailing the seven seas in the Merchant Navy. On his last epic voyage Henry saw the world, sailing to [[America]], the [[Caribbean]], through the [[Panama Canal]] and down the coast of [[South America]] to [[Peru]], [[Chile]] and the [[Strait of Magallanes]], across to [[South Africa]], round the [[Cape of Horn]], across the [[Indian Ocean]] to [[Java]], which is now [[Indonesia]], back across the Indian Ocean, through the [[Suez Canal]], across the Mediterranean and back to [[Glasgow]].

He died in 2010 at 107 or 108 years old.



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