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Sapper SAMUEL TOWNSEND

Service Number: 14793814
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 19 October 1945

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEEDS (HAREHILLS) CEMETERY

Sec. G. Grave 39.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold McCabe Townsend and Louisa Townsend, of Leeds; husband of Irene Fearn Townsend, of Harehills, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription A DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND AND DADDY WHO GAVE HIS ALL BECAUSE HE "BELIEVED"
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Buried or commemorated at

LEEDS (HAREHILLS) CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 329
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