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Trooper WALTER STANLEY TOWNSEND

Service Number: 7920657
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

40th (7th Bn. The Kings Regt. [Liverpool])

Date of Death

Died 17 November 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

4. D. 5.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter Clarence and Amy Marion Townsend, of Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 3066
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