page_title: Charles Townshend (British Army officer)
section_title: Personal life and family
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Townshend (British Army officer) / Personal life and family
context_page_description: Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, KCB, DSO was a soldier who during the First World War led an overreaching military campaign in Mesopotamia, which led to the defeat and destruction of his command. Known as the Siege of Kut, it lasted from December 1915 to April 1916 and was possibly the worst suffered by the Allies during the war. Forced to surrender, Townshend was held as a prisoner of war on Prinkipo, although he was treated like an esteemed guest, before being released in October 1918.
context_section_description: On 22 November 1898, Townshend married Alice Cahen d'Anvers, daughter of  Louis Cahen d'Anvers. She famously appears as a child alongside her sister in Renoir's 1881 portrait Pink and Blue, one of many commissioned by her father. They had one daughter, Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend (born 1900) who married Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d'Altena. Belgian-American journalist  Arnaud de Borchgrave (1926–2015) was Sir Charles Townshend's grandson.
  His niece, Tiria Vere Ferrers Townshend (daughter of his brother Ernest Edwin Townshend), then aged 17, was a survivor of the May 29, 1914 sinking of the ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland in the Saint Lawrence River which took the lives of 1,012 passengers and crew. She was one of only 41 women to survive (out of 310 on board). Her aunt, who accompanied her, was lost.
  Sir Charles died in Paris, age 63. Lady Townshend died more than four decades later, aged 89.
caption: "Pink and Blue" (Alice on the left)
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