Notes
He was a member of the college staff and the college archive records that 'Thomas Townsend was a member of staff at Worcester College from c 1900, working as an underporter and servant to Henry Cunningham, fellow and tutor in history. He enlisted in the autumn of 1915 and joined the 59th Division of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery in Dublin, where he witnessed the Easter Rising in 1916. Gunner Thomas Townsend was then sent to Flanders, where he died of wounds on 10 December 1917.'