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Pte. Henry Townson
British Army 22nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.1st July 1916)
In the 1911 Census Henry Townson is recorded as a Police Constable living in Manchester with his wife Alice (nee Bradshaw) and two daughters. He was born in Garstang and they had married at Lancaster in 1906.
He had previously served in the Scots Guards in the Boer War. He was killed in the assault on Bucket Trench on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The Commonwealth Graves Commission reports he died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme when the 22nd Battalion is part of the 7th Divison attacking Mametz. The CWGC reports that his widow had moved to Morecambe at the time of his death, her home town.