Hi Graham,
I'm grasping at straws here but the only thing I can think of is that WO Douglas Johnson was taken ill on the journey to or from India and was taken into Alexandra where he died in hospital...
Certainly reinforcements were still being sent out at the time - reinforcements from the UK arrived on 22 April.
Some of the wounded were sent back, depending on their injuries, as they would recover better in the UK!
Plus the Age Group demob parties were being sent back.
WO Johnson was 40 when he died so there is the possibility that he was sailing home to be demobbed and died from some pernicious disease...
Nick
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