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Full Name Amy Johnson Mollison Johnson
AKA Full Name
People ID 675890
Title
First Name Amy
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Middle Name
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Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames Mollison
Surname Johnson
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Father's Surname Johnson
Mother's Surname Hodge
Suffix
Gender Female
Full Birth Date If Known 1903-07-01
Birth Year 1903
Birth Month 7
Birth Day 1
Full Death Date If Known 1941-01-05
Death Year 1941
Death Month 1
Death Day 5

Events, Dates and Places

Event Date Geo Top Level Geo 2nd Level Geo 3rd Level Geo 4th Level Geo 5th Level Notes
Birth1903/07/01EnglandEast Riding of YorkshireKingston upon Hull
Disappeared1941/01/05Atlantic OceanNorth SeaThames Estuary

Relationships

Relationship Related To Relative's People ID Relative's Birth Year Relative's Death Year Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Daughter ofJohn William Johnson67591818761963
Daughter ofAmy Hodge Johnson67591718811958
Sister ofIrene Johnson Pocock67592819051929
Wife ofJames Allan Mollison67592619051959

Military Service

Rank If Known Or Highest Or Final Rank Branch of Service Beginning Date if Known End Date if Known
First Officer (ATA equivalent to RAF Flight Lieutenant)Air Transport Auxiliary (UK) 1940-1945

Military Actions Served During

World War II

Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information

Cemetery Lost At Sea, Buried At Sea, Ashes Scattered At Sea
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Cemetery Runnymede Memorial AKA Air Forces Memorial
Address Cooper's Hill Lane
City/Town Englefield Green
County/District Runnymede
State/Province Surrey
Postal/Zip Code TW20 0LB
Country/Principality England
PanelPanel 288
Organization
Property TypeCenotaph
Has MarkerYes
No Marker
Is CenotaphYes
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https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/675890.txt

Amy was a quite famous English aviatrix. She was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia, and performed a number of other daredevil feats.

After Amy was divorced from Jim Mollison she reverted to her maiden name of Johnson.

Her marker at the Runnymede Memorial shows a middle initial of "V". I have no idea what this is supposed to stand for, I have found no reference to a middle name in anything I have read on her.

She was ferrying an airplane to an RAF base in southern England when her plane went down in the Thames estuary near London, she was spotted by the crew of the HMS Haslemere and they tried to rescue her but failed. Walter Fletcher, the captain of the Haslemere, jumped into the water to try and rescue her but all he got for his trouble was a fatal case of hypothermia (as well as a posthumous Albert Medal for his efforts from the British government; some accounts state that his Albert Medal was later upgraded to a George Cross, apparently a higher order of decoration).

Given the severe weather conditions and the extreme cold at the site of her crash, it's clear that if Amy didn't drown or get pulled under the Haslemere, the water temperature would have caused her death from hypothermia in short order. Be that as it may, her body was never recovered.

At the crematorium in Hull where her parents and one of her sisters had a marker, records of inscriptions indicate her name was also listed so at one time there was a cenotaph for her there. The crematorium shut down in the 1960s and apparently most if not all of the memorial tablets at the crematorium have been ravaged by time and the elements so they are no longer legible. I'm pretty sure there are other memorials to Amy in England, much as many people in the States adored Amelia Earhart likewise Amy Johnson was honored in the UK.


Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander (CBE)
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Family Search ID 2Z4Z-98T
Find A Grave 1 9732313
Famous per Find A Grave Yes
Famous per Consensus Yes
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Other websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson
Record Entry Date 2020-01-25 01:38:44
Record Last Edit Date 2020-01-25 01:38:44

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