Name
Dudley Ryder Townshend
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/08/1915
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
11th Bn., attached Lancashire Fusiliers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 152 to 154.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 6 Jul 1877 and baptised on 2 Sep 1877 in Tollington Park, London son of Nathaniel Wilmot Oliver and Maria Townshend of Derry, Rosscarberry, Cork, Ireland. Educated at King's College, London. Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford. Mathematical Master at Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancashire. Member of Staff at the United Services College 1899-1905.
Wartime Service
Killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.
Additional Information
Haileybury Register had Dudley Ryder Townsend. United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
