Ernest TOWNSHEND

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TOWNSHEND, Ernest

Service Number:	195
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
Memorials:

24 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 195, 12th Light Horse Regiment
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

Biography 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).

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