TOWNSHEND, Ernest
| Service Number: | 195 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1875 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia, 1924, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 24 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 195, 12th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 13 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 195, 12th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 195, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 23 Feb 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron | |
| 15 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 195, 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Ernest Townshend was born in 1875 at Bathurst, NSW, a son to John Herbert Townshend and Mary Hannah Townshend (nee Hutchinson-Parkin). He married Amy Hedger in 1903 at Newtown, NSW.
He served twice in the South African (Boer) War and twice in WW1.
Boer War services- Private S.N. 99, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen and Private S.N. 681, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen (2nd Draft).
WW1 services- Private S.N. 289, 1st Battalion, Naval and Military Forces (Special Tropical Corps) and Private S.N. 195, 12th Light Horse Regiment AIF transferring to the 4th Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Squadron AIF.
(sources AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 481 and 519; National Archives Australia WW1 service record).