Major-General Charles Vere Ferrars Townshend, C.B, D.S.O

Major-General Charles Townshend (1861 - 1924), led a long and distinguished career in the British army. During the First World War he commanded an Anglo-Indian force against the Turks in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). After being forced into retreat by the Turkish army he and his men entrenched themselves at Kut al-Amara in December 1915. Cut off from assistance they resisted the besieging army until April the following year when Townshend finally surrendered and he and the survivors were taken into captivity

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