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Private WILLIAM ROBERT TOWNSEND

Service Number: 161284
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

38th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 November 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XLIX. A. 23.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Eliza Ann Townsend, of Rotherhithe, London. Born at Rotherhithe.
  • Personal Inscription I HAVE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT LIBERTE' EGALITE' FRATER-NITE
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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