Private 300395 Samuel Townsend
Regiment/Unit: King's (Liverpool Regiment) - 13th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 250302, Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry.
Age at death: 37
Date of death: 22nd of August 1918
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Bellacourt Military Cemetery Riviere - III. E. 8.
BMD details:
Marriage: 2nd Qtr 1913 - Samuel Townsend to Alice Robinson at Prescot. Vol 8b - Page 1201.
Family details:
Son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Townsend, of St. Helens; husband of Alice Townsend, of 347, Sutton Rd., St. Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1891 - 6 years old Samuel is living at 17 Doulton Street, St Helens with parents Jeremiah (52), Elizabeth J (46) and four siblings: George (25), Ann J (18), David (10), Florence (4). 1901 - 16 years old 'Labourer at Glue Works' Samuel is living at Abbots Hall Farm, Sutton, St Helens with parents Jeremiah (62), Elizabeth Jane (56) and two siblings: David (20), Florence (14). 1911 - Sees 25 years old 'Engine Man Above Ground' Samuel boarding at 6 Woolley Colliery, Darton, Nr Barnsley with the Harrison family. AVL 1918: 78 Heath Street, Thatto Heath, St Helens.
Notes:
Private 300395 Samuel Townsend is remembered on the BICC Memorial 'Link' magazine of September 1918 reported that he was 'late of EFD' Information from [url=http://www.prescot-rollofhonour.info/casualty-305-Samuel_Townsend.html]Prescot Roll Of Honour[/url]
Private 300395 Samuel Townsend is remembered on the BICC Memorial 'Link' magazine of September 1918 reported that he was 'late of EFD' Information from [url=http://www.prescot-rollofhonour.info/casualty-305-Samuel_Townsend.html]Prescot Roll Of Honour[/url]
[pic]imgs/sppics/S_Townsend_KLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Samuel Townsend at
Bellacourt Military Cemetery, Riviere
(Photograph courtesy of R Houghton)[/caption]
