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23 December 1914 : Albert Henry Reed Townsend

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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 …