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16/04/2020 Private Townsend is buried in Ballyscullion Parish Churchyard in Bellaghy.
16/04/2020 Information provided here is courtesy of the excellent research undertaken by Mr Sam Hudson.
16/04/2020 Private Townsend is listed on page 119 of the Castledawson War Dead Book – ‘They Didn’t Come Home.’
16/04/2020 Private Charles Frederick Townsend is commemorated locally on Castledawson War Memorial.
16/04/2020 Private Charles Frederick Townsend died on 9th September 1941. He was stationed in Bellaghy at the time.
16/04/2020 Private Townsend then became attached to the 4th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment.
16/04/2020 Private Charles Frederick Townsend was with 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
16/04/2020 Charles Frederick Townsend was born about 1910.
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