In Memory of

Private JOHN TOWNSEND

742324, 2nd/25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)

who died on 23 February 1919

Remembered with honour Manchester Southern Cemetery , Grave Ref. S. CE. 416.

During the First World War, Manchester contained between thirty and forty war hospitals, including the 2nd Western General Hospital and the Nell Lane Military Hospital for prisoners of war. Many of those buried in the cemeteries and churchyards of the city died in these hospitals.

[Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission]