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TOWNSHEND, Ernest Richard
Personal Details
Service Number: | 86 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Born: | Sussex, England, 1879 |
Home Town: | Coolup, Murray, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Fruit Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coolup War Memorial, Donnybrook War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
Service History
World War 1 Service
22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 86, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 86, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1879 Townshend Ernest Richard Steyning 2b 294
He was the son of Henry and Esther Townshend of Beckworth Lodge, Lindfield.
He is remembered on the Lindfield Parish War Memorial 1914-1919. Also remembered here is Driver William Newton Baldock, aged 28. of the Australian Army Service Corps who also served at Gallipoli.