Private 11230 D Company, 2nd Bn., Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
who died on Wednesday, 5th May 1915
Born Bingley, Yorkshire, son of Frank Townsley; husband of Margaret A Townsley, of 105 Town Street, Bramley, Leeds. Age 44 and no known grave.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Panel Number: 20
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission information, "Soldiers who Died in the First World War" CD-ROM and personal research.