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Military service
Service number:
K/57736
Age:
36
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. G. 4.
Additional information
Son of William and Rachel Townsley; husband of Mary Townsley, of Coal Creek. British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Corporal Francis William Townsley
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Grave Marker
A photograph of the headstone at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (J. Stephens) -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Inscription
Epitaph -
Inscription
List of men from WWII remembered on cenotaph in Fernie, BC -
Cenotaph
Cenotaph in Fernie, BC -
Attestation paper
Attestation paper, LAC, Ottawa -
Telegram
LAC, Ottawa -
Telegram
LAC, Ottawa -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province. c1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Francis William Townsley
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 464 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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