[1] In World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and rising to the rank of squadron leader.
[4] The Leicestershire Yeomanry were mobilised in August 1914 at the start of the First World War, and arrived in France in November as part of the North Midland Mounted Brigade.
They had great difficulty in crossing the railway, which was under fire from German machine guns, but managed by building a parapet of sandbags.
Fielding Johnson eventually joined the 3rd Dragoons accompanied by a sergeant-major and 14 men, the only survivors from "B" and "C" squadrons.
[9] Fielding Johnson joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, being granted a probationary commission as a pilot officer on 4 July 1939.
[14] On 29 October 1944 he parachuted to safety behind allied lines after the Mitchell bomber he was flying in was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Holland.
At the time he was Gunnery Officer with 180 Squadron, based in Belgium with the Second Tactical Air Force at Melsbroek.
[citation needed] Fielding Johnson married, firstly in 1918, Gwendolen (or Gwendoline) Edith Whetstone, daughter of the late Walter Whetstone (1863–1904) of Shirley Lodge, Knighton, Leicester and his wife Edith Caroline Beckingham; her mother, daughter of James Beckingham of Burnopfield, had remarried in 1908, to Ernest Varvill Hiley, and was known later as Lady Hiley.
[21] Fielding Johnson married, secondly in 1931 at the Savoy Chapel, Noel Earle née Downes-Martin, of Killoskehane Castle, Co.
[23] Noel had four sons with Earle, the eldest Cecil Diccon being accidentally killed while serving in the Royal Horse Artillery on 15 November 1945.