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Private JAMES RALPH TOWNSON

Service Number: 739734
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

1st Motor Machine Gun Bty.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

VI. B. 22.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of James and Maggie Townson, of Nanticoke, Ontario; husband of Mrs. M. L. Townson, of Selkirk, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription WITH BREAKING HEARTS WE AWAIT OUR HAPPY MEETING MOTHER, BROTHERS & SISTERS.
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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