Lewis Hubert Townsend
Memorial: Wickwar - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Royal Irish Regiment
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Lance Corporal 1031
Parents: Alfred and Annie Elizabeth Townsend (nee Teagle)
Marital status: Married
Home address: High Street, Wickwar, Glos
Pre-war occupation: Clerk at Brewery in 1911
Date of birth: 28/07/1894
Place of birth: Hawkesbury, South Glos
Date of death: 20/09/1915
Buried/Commemorated at: Helles Memorial (Panel 56), Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey
Age: 21
Further information:
Lewis Hubert Townsend was the son of Alfred and Annie Elizabeth Townsend (nee Teagle) and he was born on 28 July 1894 in Hawkesbury. He was the second of three children andhad a younger sister called May. Their father worked as a domestic gardener and was born in Wargrove in Berkshire. The family lived on the High Street in Wickwar in 1911. Lewis was working as a clerk at the brewery in 1911. He married Ethel Harriet Harding in 1915 in Dursley
He enlisted in Bristol and joined the 5th Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment (formerly 11828 Somerset Light Infantry). He became a Lance Corporal and died in September 1915 at the age of 21. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Gallipoli in Turkey. He was awarded the Victory and British War medals
Lewis Hubert Townsend is remembered on the Wickwar Holy Trinity Church Memorial, the Wickwar Village Hall Memorial and the Chipping Sodbury War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Wickwar
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate and District Heritage Centre and the book “Lest We Forget” by Arthur Threlfall Searson. Forces War Records and CWGC