| Content Note | Includes: Typed letter from Mrs Annie Townsend, Lieutenant Townsend's mother, confirming which of his forenames she wanted engraved on the headstone, 6 December 1921; letter from C W Simmonds, the Estates Officer of the Toronto General Trusts Corporation, to the IWGC Secretary, with the information that Mrs Townsend had passed away and had left the sum of $100 to be invested, the interest from which, she had instructed, was to be used to buy and place flowers on her son's grave on 10 August each year in perpetuity, 28 July 1926; bills of exchange dating from 1927 to 1939 and subsequent acknowledgement from the Commission that the flowers had been placed on the grave; two receipts for 125 francs and 121 francs respectively from C W Almack, a florist living in Albert, France, for a wreath of natural flowers ('une couronne en fleurs naturelles'), 8 August 1929, and 7 August 1930; letter from Mr Simmonds to the IWGC, presuming that owing to the war situation the placing of wreaths had been discontinued, but asking for the arrangement to continue after the war, 4 December 1942; letter from Mr Simmonds, asking whether the Commission were now able to continue the placing of flowers on Lieutenant Townsend's grave, 12 July 1946; statements of the account of Mrs Townsend, dating from 1971 to 1987. |
| Cemetery_Name | CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY |