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Lance Corporal JAMES L. TOWNSON

Service Number: B/78871
Regiment & Unit/Ship

48th Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 13 April 1945

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

I. C. 8.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of George Thomas Townson and of Ellen Louisa Townson (nee Jupp); husband of Bernice Norma Townson (nee Ross), of Toronto, Ontario.
  • Personal Inscription IN LIFE, LOVED; IN DEATH, REMEMBERED
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

HOLTEN CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1394
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