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Private ALBERT EDWARD TOWNSEND

Service Number: 2719
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 October 1915

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

III. B. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Annie Townsend, of Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHICH GOD PROMISED
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Buried or commemorated at

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 804
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