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Military service
Service number:
282510
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
85th Bn.
Birth:
September 22, 1895
Enlistment:
March 9, 1916
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. B. 24.
Additional information
Born 22 September 1895 in Lockeport, Nova Scotia. Son of Mrs. Lavinia Townsend, of Lockeport, Shelburne Co., Nova Scotia. Listed his civilian occupation as fisherman. He enlisted at Lockeport, Nova Scotia on 9 March 1916 with the Nova Scotia Regiment.
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Private Willard Townsend
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Private Willard Townsend
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Private Willard Townsend
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 340 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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