João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida

João Augusto Ferreira de Almeida (3 April 1894 — 16 September 1917) was a soldier in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps of the First World War.

[1] Ferreira de Almeida was born in Foz do Douro, Porto to a father who was an organist and a mother who was a servant.

In July, he was transferred to the 23rd, and also given a 60-day prison term for being absent without leave with the unit's water car, having driven 60 kilometres away to Wavrans.

On 29 July, he offered money to fellow soldiers to take him over enemy lines, where he would share maps of Allied positions with the Germans.

One, Sergeant Teófilo Antunes Saraiva, did not shoot and was investigated for disobeying orders; it was found that the safety lock on his gun was defective.