Current Information:

Age-34

59, Pitchford Street, Stratford

Sherborne Cemetery, Dorset

Louis Townsend died from wounds on 20th March, 1915, after having been brought back to the United Kingdom but as yet, there is no information, as to when and where he was wounded. The 1st Lincolnshire battalion was part of 9 Brigade, 3rd Division that had arrived in France at the beginning of the war and had been involved in the fighting on the Western Front since that date. In March, 1915 they were holding the line to the south of Ypres.