H.+TOWNSEND

Townsend, Harry, Private, 66701, 26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Formerly 80846, South Staffordshire Regiment Born Palterton, Derbyshire Enlisted Bolsover, Derbyshire Resided Chesterfield, Derbyshire Died of wounds 23rd September 1917 aged 24 Husband of Elsie Townsend, of 1, Transvaal Terrace, Palterton, Chesterfield. Buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, I, B, 12

1911 Census A collier's labourer Son of John, a collier's labourer, and Elizabeth Townsend, of Scotland Yard, Palterton, Derbyshire

Harry Townsend is also remembered on a plaque inside the St. Luke's Mission, Palterton 