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L/Cpl. Arthur Stanley Butzbach
British Army 13th Btn, C Coy. Rifle Brigade
from:Bermondsey, London
(d.5th Jun 1917)
Arthur Stanley Butzbach was born in West Ham, the son of Arthur Charles Butzbach and Jane Shepherd, on 23rd May 1893. He was the eldest of eight children, the family moving to Bermondsey a few years later.
In 1912 Arthur enlisted in the Army Service Corps, following in his fathers footsteps as he had served in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
At some time in 1916 Arthur had transferred into the Rifle Brigade. He went missing at the front, near Tournai, Belgium, on about the 30th May 1917. Red Cross records show he had received a bullet wound to the thigh and been captured. On 5th June 1917 he succumbed to his wounds and his final resting place is in the British section of the military cemetery in Tournai.