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Peter Townsend

Yangon, 22 Nov 1914 – Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, 19 Jun 1995

9 facts3 sources

Facts and their sources

  • Born22 Nov 1914, Yangonnot verified1 source
  • MarriedRosemary Pratt, Marchioness Camdennot verified1 source
  • Titlesquire, 1944–1952not verified1 source
  • Titlesquire, 1952–1953not verified1 source
  • Died19 Jun 1995, Saint-Léger-en-Yvelinesnot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 22 Nov 1914

    Born in Yangon

  2. 1944–1952

    Squire

  3. 1945

    A son is born

  4. 1952–1953

    Squire

  5. 19 Jun 1995

    Dies in Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, aged 80

Family

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Partner

Children · 1

During his lifetime

He lived through 9 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Yangon.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1910s · Peter is born in Yangon

In the news1918

1918 Influenza Pandemic kills 60,000

The 1918 influenza pandemic, which arrived with soldiers returning from World War I, killed an estimated 60,000 people in Burma.

Getting around

Dim train lighting required portable candles

Trains were so dimly lit that passengers wanting to read had to bring their own portable candlesticks.

At the table

Tax-free home distillation privileges

Between 1875 and 1914, French peasants had a legal privilege to distill part of their own wine, cider, or fruit harvest into spirits without paying any taxes or needing declarations.

The First World War. From 1914 to 1918 the great powers fought in trenches across Europe and beyond; some 20 million people died. Brazil joined the Allies in 1917.Around the world · 1914–1918

The First World War. From 1914 to 1918 the great powers fought in trenches across Europe and beyond; some 20 million people died. Brazil joined the Allies in 1917.

Collection DocAnciens/docpix.fr · public domain

What people wore

Alsatian folk dress used on political parades

In Alsace, traditional Tracht was tied to religious occasions like weddings and first communions, but it later became common at political rallies; when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Strasbourg in 1877, women were greeted in Tracht. The text also describes how the costume’s symbolism shifted with politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Music

Children Singing in Wartime Shelters

During wartime, children in a shelter spontaneously sang together to overcome fear, with over 300 voices joining in songs like Au Clair de la lune. These songs were part of a shared national repertoire learned in families and schools.

Daily life

Memorable daily life details

A household helper, or femme de ménage, could be hired in Paris for six sous per hour, while well-to-do families identified the gender of their babies by using red ribbons for boys and blue for girls on the nurse's cap.