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There are normally three sections of text on the page that you can listen to: the headings, the main text and a selection. Click on 'Speak Headings to speak the page headings (access key 'l'). Click on 'Speak Main Text' (access key 'q') to listen to the main text.
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You can enable the reading out loud of the element that currently has focus by clicking on 'Start Focus Speaking' (access key 'f') and you can stop this by clicking on 'Stop Focus Speaking' (access key 'd').
You can pause the audio by clicking on 'Pause' (access key 'r') and resume by clicking on 'Resume' (access key 't').
To cancel or stop the audio click on 'Cancel' (access key 'y'). To restart the current audio from the beginning, click on 'Restart' (access key 'k').
To hide the accessibility controls click on 'Hide Panel' (access key 'h')
To hide this explanation click on 'Hide Explanation' (access key 'x')
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Roll of Honour:Ernest Oliver Townsend
ERNEST OLIVER TOWNSEND
1889 - 1949
Ernest was born at Stouts Cottage, Widecombe in the Moor, in 1889, the son of John Townsend and Jane France George.
In 1910, Ernest’s father died, and the family moved into Widecombe village. Ernest took work as a labourer working partly for the local Blacksmith, Aaron Warren.
It was whilst working for Aaron that he met Susan Warren whom he married in 1916.
Ernest enlisted with the 1st/4th Battalion Devonshire Regiment in late 1916. He served in Mesopotamia in Amara and was involved with the defence of the River Tigrus. His Battalion ended the Great War in Baquaba, north of Baghdad. Ernest was demobbed in March 1919.
After the war Ernest returned to New Park Cottage Widecombe where he lived with his wife and widowed mother. By the 1930’s they had moved to Bittleford and by 1939 were living at Windwhistle Cottages.
Susan and Ernest only had one child Herbert Leslie. Regrettably Herbert was killed in 1939 when his motor cycle was in collision with a car at Cullompton.
Ernest Townsend died in Taunton in 1949 aged 60.
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