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Captain JOHN PHILIP TOWNEND

Service Number: 201695
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 17 June 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY

6. M. 23.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2 Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Indian Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Capt. Philip Charles William Greaves Townend and Gladys Townend, of Tilehurst, Berkshire.
  • Personal Inscription I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE; SAITH THE LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1603
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