W.H. Townsend
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'Machine Gun Corps. Killed by shell Sept. 20 1917. Lived with Aunt Mrs Canipa 37 years old. Worked for Spence.' (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/14)
External sources: 27 Demesne Road