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Pte. Stanley Hylton Butters
British Army 23rd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ashington, Northumberland
Stanley Hylton Butters was my grandfather. I know he fought at the Somme in 1916. I remember going to see him once on the first of July and he told me "today was the day so many years ago we went over the top at the Somme. thousands were killed around me but they didn't get your granddad". I know he was wounded and ended up in hospital as I have seen his war records on line thru ancestry.uk.com.
At school, studying the First World War, he wrote me a little note about the war, telling of life in the trenches and how how he used to bathe his feet in rum - something he drank until his death in 1990. I remember he finished his little precis for me with the words "and all for a shilling a day".

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