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Edmond Townsend - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Edmond Townsend
- Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend (22 April 1845 – 2 January 1917) was an Anglo-Irish medical officer in the British Army.
- He joined the British Army in 1867 and in a career spanning 38 years rose to become surgeon-general, the most senior ranking medical officer in the British army. Townsend served in nine overseas campaigns with the British Army from 1867 to 1902 later becoming Principal Medical Officer of Netley Military Hospital, a role he held until his retirement in 1905.
- He was decorated several times for bravery during his army career and was mentioned in company dispatches on five separate occasions.
- He was knighted in the Order of the Bath in 1904 in recognition of his distinguished army career during which he had been both severely and dangerously wounded in action.
- After his retirement in 1905 he lived in London and Ireland, where he died at Clontymon, County Cork on 2 January 1917, aged 71.
