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Able.Sea. James Bushell
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Nubian
from:Jarrow
(d.27th Oct 1916)
James Bushell was 24 years old when he died on 27th October 1916 whilst serving onboard HMS Nubian with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was born and lived in Jarrow, son of Thomas Bushell and stepson of Catherine Bushell (nee Donnelly), husband of Annie Howe (formerly Bushell nee Simpson) of 40 Pearson Place Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as James Bushell age 18 Ship Painter in Shipyard is with his father Thomas Bushell and stepmother Catherine Bushell and family at 55 Queens Road, Jarrow.
James is buried in Jarrow Cemetery, his death being recorded in Dover.
Drv. William John Bushell
British Army 119th Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Bristol
My William Bushell was a keen horseman and enlisted in the Army in 1908. In late 1917, he was wounded and discharged as disabled, with loss of his left eye and head wounds. This affected his whole life as to employment, but he was a wonderful father.
Pte. John Henry Bushen
British Army 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Barnstaple
(d.1st November 1918)
L/Sgt. Herbert Henry Bushill
British Army B Coy. 19th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Metlock, Manchester
(d.20th Dec 1917)
My great uncle, Herbert Bushill was killed in the trenches at the Battle of Passchendale near Ypres in Belgium.
Pte. George Henry Bushnell
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
(d.22nd Sep 1914)
George Bushnell was born in Wexcombe, Wiltshire to parents Albert and Fanny Bushnell. He died at the Valley of Aisne. George is buried at Vailly Cemetery, France and is remembered on the War memorial plaque in Fyfield Church, Hampshire.
Pte. Sydney Ernest Victor Busley
British Army 2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards
from:Moulton, Spalding, Lincolnshire
(d.16th Sept 1916)
Sydney Busley was 20 years old when he was killed in action on September 16th 1916. Like so many others he was never given a grave of his own. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He was my Grand-Uncle.
Capt. Benjamin Buss
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
from:Elphicks, Horsmonden, Kent
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Capt. Buss died in 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, London after an operation to remove shrapnel from a head wound sustained in action. He was buried in St. Margaret's Churchyard, Horsmonden, Kent.
His story can be found in the British Newspaper Archives, Kent & Sussex Courier, issue Friday 15th November 1918. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000483/19181115/014/0003 (membership is required to view).
Gnr. Frank John Bussey
British Army 177th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Ramsgate
(d.3rd Aug 1917)
In 1911 Frank Bussey was working as a Barman in Fulham, London, England and living at 55 Goldhawk Road, Fulham. He served as a Gunner with "C" Bty. 177th Bde. Royal Field Artillery and was aged 27 when he was killed on 03/08/1917. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. He was the son of James William and Jane Bussey, of 15A, Alma Place, Maison Dieu Rd., Dover, Kent.
Pte. Robert William Bussey
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lt. Julian Bussy
British Army 10th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
(d.20th Sep 1916)
W. E. Bustard
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte, Malcolm Gibson Butchart
British Army 8th Btn. Black Watch
from:Kirkcaldy, Perth, Scotland
(d.12th Oct 1917)
Able.Sea. Albert Reuben Butcher
Royal Navy HMS Patrol
from:Tottenham, Middlesex
Albert Butcher was born 17th August 1888 in Tottenham, Middlesex. He joined the Royal Navy on 11th June 1906 and served continuously until he was demobilised on 14th May 1919, on HMS Patrol, HMS Pembroke, HMS Queenmore and HMS Domin. He died of pneumonia the 3rd November 1934.
Pte. Alexander Benjamin Butcher
British Army 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Tottenham, Middlesex
Alexander Butcher served with the 12th, 18th and 23rd Battalions, Middlesex Regiment.
L/Sgt. Bertie John Butcher
British Army 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
(d.17th Feb 1917)
Dvr. Claude William Hendy Butcher
British Army 15th Battery, 36th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:115 Dukes Avenue, Muswell Hill, London
Claude Butcher was in the Middlesex Volunteer Artillery Regiment, which I think was a Territorial Army unit. He enlisted at Holloway on 3rd of December 1915 was discharged 28th of July 1919 having served 3 years 155 days on active service and 83 days in the reserves. He was discharged "physically unfit para 802 (XVI) K.R.".
He was wounded by shrapnel and his horse killed under him. He was treated in Parkhurst Military Hospital on the Isle of Wight. I still have the shrapnel they removed from him along with his spurs, bayonet holder and cap badge. I do not know exactly what part of his body was hit but he did not exhibit any disability in later life. Claude was torpedoed in February or March 1916 while crossing the channel from France. This came from a note sent to his mother on 2nd of March 1916.
After WW1 he was a clerk in an insurance office until his retirement. He was my uncle by marriage and I remember him as a dapper little man, very kind and gentle. He and my aunt did not have children. Unfortunately I did not ask him anything about his war service while he was alive.
Pte. Frederick Charles Butcher
British Army 7th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Folkestone, Kent
(d.27th Aug 1918)
Frederick Butcher was shot for desertion 27/08/1918, aged 23. He is remembered on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Haucourt, France. He was the son of Mrs. E. Butcher, of 24A, Park St., Folkestone.
Pte. Harold Butcher
British Army 15th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:County Wiltshire
(d.4th June 1917)
Harold Butcher was my paternal great-grandfather. He was a 27 year old husband and father when he died fighting in France with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 15th Battalion, in WWI. I believe he was from Trowbridge, in County Wiltshire.
Harold died 4th of June 1917 and is buried at the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Butcher of Trowbridge, Wilts, husband of Daisy A. Butcher of Nolan's Cottage, Yatesbury, Calne, Wilts.
Pte. Harry George Butcher
British Army 8th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:Little Wadringfield, Suffolk
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Henry Butcher
British Army Manchester Regiment
(d.1915)
Pvt. Henry Butcher joined the Manchester Regiment,in 1914. He was based in Rochdale, Lancashire. He then, after basic training, was posted to Egypt. Then in 1915 he was posted to Gallipoli, where he died of his wounds.
Pte. Henry Butcher
British Army 7th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:48 Larch St. Hightown, Manchester
(d.7th Aug 1915)
My Great Uncle Henry Butcher was a boy of 23 years when he died in action at Galipoli on the 7th of August 1915. He was in the great regiment the Manchesters. He enlisted in 1914 in Manchester, Lancashire. I'm 71 years of age. I never knew this hero of ours until I got my first computer a year ago.
What a very short life he lived, but I want to try and imagine of the time of him enlisting and his death. This period must have been wonderful,the pals he must have made,the wonderful times they had. These are not your day to day pals,these are chaps you bonded with, you trusted, you knew they would never ever let you down. he must have felt safe, in their company,and they in his. In those two years must have been the happy years of his short life. So, I for one, am grateful for that. So many boys, and they were boys, died this this a dreadful war.
God bless all those who died when fighting in the Manchester Regiment. They did this Regiment proud.
Pte. Henry Richard Butcher
British Army 1st Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Kennington, London
(d.19th Oct 1916)
L/Cpl. Norman Butcher MM
Sherwood Foresters British Army
from:Mansfield Notts
(d.5th Mar 1917)
Pte. W. Butcher
British Army 1st Btn. Royal West Surrey (Queen's) Rgt.
Private Burrows was a POW at Gustrow POW camp in Mecklenburg. He was punished by the guards for stealing a loaf of bread. The punishment consisted of tying him to a post for three hours in the snow. This led to frostbite and amputations.
Rflmn. Ernest Butchers
British Army 13th Btn. Rifle Brigade
(d.13th Aug 1918)
Ernest Butchers is my great uncle born March 1899 and died in August 1918, aged 19.
Pte. Henry Charles Butland
British Army 5th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Taunton
2nd Lt. W. H. Butland
Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Albert Butler
British Army 1st Battlaion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Handsworth, Birmingham
(d.1st July 1916)
Albert Butler was my maternal grandmother's first husband, marrying in Aston, Birmingham 1913. Not sure how he came to sign up with the KOSB, but it would seem that he enrolled at Rugby, near Coventry before being shipped off to Gallipoli in 1914 before being shipped with his regiment to France.
The 1st Battalion were one of the first units to go over the top at the Somme on July 1st 1916 and Albert Butler was killed in action, with no known grave.
His name is featured on the Thiepval Monument and on the Bilston, West Midlands War Memorial. It's assumed that his wife, Edith (my grandmother) had moved there whilst Butler was serving in the forces
Trpr. Alexander Butler
Canadian Expeditionary Force Royal Canadian Dragoons
(d.2nd Jul 1916)
Alexander Butler was executed for murder 02/07/1916 and buried in Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, Ribemont, France.
Alexander Butler, a Londoner by birth, emigrated to Canada and enlisted in the Royal Canadian Dragoons. He was involved in a number of battles, before falling from his horse and injuring his head. He became mentally unstable, which resulted in him shooting and killing another soldier, in June 1916. Butler was executed by firing squad in July 1916.
Born in London, England on 11 June 1888, Alexander Butler served in the 7th Queen's Own Hussars for nearly seven years, before emigrating to Canada. Following the outbreak of the war, Butler enlisted in the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and was dispatched to France in May 1915, where he participated in dismounted service at the Battle of Festubert, Battle of Givenchy and the Battle of Messines. Butler fell off his horse twice, once resulting in a head injury, which led to increasingly belligerent behaviour. The RCDs then saw mounted service in the forthcoming June 1916 Somme Offensive.
On 8 June 1916, while stationed behind the front lines of Hesdin, Butler took his rifle and opened fire, shooting Trooper Mickleburgh dead with five shots in the chest before he was overpowered and arrested.
Sgt. Alexander Butler
British Army 11th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Port Glasgow
(d.6th October 1918)
Alexander Butler was my great uncle. He died in Salonica of the Spanish Influenza that raged for 3 months from September 1918. He is buried in Kirechkoi-Hortakoi British Military Cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Always proud of him.
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