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Private JOSEPH TOWNEND

Service Number: 523191
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Army Medical Corps

8th Field Amb.

Date of Death

Died 18 November 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY

II. G. 32.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Elias Townend, of Bentham, England; husband of Lillian Powell Townend, of 1307, 11th Avenue East, Calgary, Alberta,.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVED FOR HIS LOVED ONES BUT FOR HIS COUNTRY HE DIED
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Buried or commemorated at

MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2442
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