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[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Clarence Arnold Keatinge Johnson''' (1870–1937) was a senior officer in the [[First Australian Imperial Force]].<ref name="auto">{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Times]] | title=LIEUT.-COL KEATINGE JOHNSON | date=19 November 1937 | page=2}} (obituary)</ref><ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11131844 Obituary: Lieut.-Colonel C.A. Keatinge Johnson, ''The Argus'', (Saturday 11 December 1937), p.2.]</ref> He was second in command of the 4th Light Horse, [[First Australian Imperial Force|AIF]], and part of the contingent in the 1st Expeditionary Force to Egypt.<ref name="auto"/> Keatinge Johnson later commanded the Australian Overseas base in Egypt, was Assistant Adjutant-General in England and in the final stage of his military career was cable censor at the British Military Intelligence Department.<ref name="auto"/>

==Family==
Clarence Arnold Keatinge Johnson was born in [[England]] in 1870 and educated at [[Bedford Modern School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7282545|title=Life story: Clarence Arnold Keatinge Johnson | Lives of the First World War|website=livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated49">{{cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/5183/?page=49 |title=Community: Bedford Modern School - List of Old Bedford Modernians serving in HM Forces 1914 - 1918. | Lives of the First World War |publisher=Livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2020-04-09}}</ref>

In 1902 he married an Australian, Marjorie (née Brodribb), at [[St George's Hanover Square Church]], London. According to his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'', he was a sportsman who enjoyed big game hunting in the Himalayas and also a keen fisherman who caught big game fish in New Zealand and Queensland.<ref name="auto"/> Keatinge Johnson died in [[London]] in 1937.<ref name="auto"/> He was survived by his widow, a son and a daughter.<ref name="auto"/>

==Military career==
In 1889 Keatinge Johnson was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at [[Lucknow]] and saw service with them in the Black Mountain Expedition of 1891.<ref name="auto"/> In August 1892 he left the Welsh Fusiliers to join the [[1st Horse (Skinner's Horse)|1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]] and served in China during the [[Boxer Rebellion]].<ref name="auto"/> Having been promoted Major in 1907, he was forced to retire in 1912 on the grounds of ill health and moved to Australia with his Australian wife.<ref name="auto"/>

At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Keatinge Johnson offered his service to the Commonwealth Government and was made second in command of the 4th Light Horse, [[First Australian Imperial Force|AIF]], which was part of the contingent in the 1st Expeditionary Force to Egypt.<ref name="auto"/> Whilst in Egypt he Commanded reinforcement camps at [[Abbassia]] and was later in Command of the Australian Overseas base in Egypt.<ref name="auto"/>

After [[Egypt]], Keatinge Johnson set off for the [[Dardanelles]] on the ''[[SS Vaderland (1900)|Southland]]'', the vessel being torpedoed in the [[Aegean Sea]] off the coast of [[Mudros]] in 1915.<ref name="auto"/> He was subsequently sent back to England having been invalided and suffering from dysentery.<ref name="auto"/> It was not long before he was back in Egypt as Assistant Commandant at [[Tell El Kebir|Tel-el-Kebir]] before returning to England as [[Adjutant-General to the Forces|Assistant Adjutant-General]] in 1916.<ref name="auto"/> He was made Commander of the A Group Training Brigade on Salisbury Plain before resigning from the AIF in 1917 with the permanent rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.<ref name="auto"/> For the remainder of [[World War I|the War]] he was at the Military Intelligence Department as cable censor.<ref name="auto"/>

==See also==
* [[1916 Pioneer Exhibition Game]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067009/large/5366521.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Major Clarence Arnold Keatinge Johnson, in the collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.]
* [https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068911/large/5359632.JPG First World War Nominal Roll: Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Arnold Johnson, in the collection of the ''Australian War Memorial''.]
* [https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=1825157&D=D First World War Service Record: Lieutenant-Colonel Clarence Arnold Keatinge Johnson, ''National Archives of Australia''.]

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