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Lance Corporal LEONARD TOWNEND

Service Number: 1578928
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 23 November 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY

VI, B, 10.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Roland and Alice Townend; husband of Dorothy May Townend, of Castleford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND DADDY. "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD"
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Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 775
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