Born in Chester
Albert was working at the age of 12, his mother a widow, Albert gave up making leather goods to join the army in 1911.
By the outbreak of war he was a Lance Corporal with the 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment.
A laundry washer, his mother Annie Georgina, received a small pension after her son's death.
LCpl Albert H R Townsend died during the Battle of Ypres on 23 December 1914 and is remembered on the memorial at Le Touret.
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8231 LCpl Albert Henry Reed Townsend, 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
23 December 1914