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Sgt. Walter Edward Butler
British Army 6th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Chatham
(d.13th Oct 1916)
Lt. Thomas Butler-Stoney
British Army 1st Btn. Irish Guards
(d.30th September 1917)
Lieutenant Butler-Stoney was the son of Walter Charles Butler-Stoney and Ellen Cattley Kemble. He died aged 42, from wounds received in action.
He is buried in the family plot, by the entrance of the Lorrha Old Cemetery, Lorrha, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
Pte. Albert John Butlin
Army Veterinary Corps
from:Birmingham
Albert John Butlin was 34 when he rejoined the Army Veterinary Corps on the 13th July 1916. He lived in Balsall Heath with wife Charlotte and children Eva Annie, John Harry and Ivy Hannah.
Pte. Ernest Butroid
British Army 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Ernest Butroid enlisted eith the the Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action aged 23.
Pte. Arthur George Butt
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
(d.21st March 1918)
2nd Lt. C. E. Butt
British Army 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Gloucestershire
(d.4th April 1918)
We have family in Gloucestershire with surname Butt and we came across this headstone for C.E. Butt in the cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux in France in 2014. We would love to hear from anyone who knows more about this gentleman.
Rflmn. Frederick Claude Butt
British Army 5th Btn. London Regiment
from:Holcombe, Herts
(d.6th July 1916)
Pte. Frederick Butt
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Whittlesey
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
Frederick Butt served with the 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment. He was the son of Fred and Elizabeth Butt (nee Catling) of Rose Cottage in Delph Street, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. He is remembered on the Vis en Artois Memorial.
Capt. Harry Alfred Butt
British Army 14th btn. Gloucestershire Rgt
(d.8th Jun 1916)
Harry Butt was the son of Rev. Canon George Holden Butt, from a letter I know that in May 1916 whilst in France he met up with his brother Lewis, who was serving with the Rifle Brigade. Unfortunately both were killed with in weeks and are laid to rest in Northern France.
2nd Lieut Lewis John Dalgliesh Butt
British Army 16th (Service) Bn. The Rifle Brigade
from:S. Norwood,London
(d.4th Jul 1916)
I would like more information on 2nd Lt Butt, who I am currently researching. He was the son of The Revd. Canon G.H.Butt and I have letters he sent from the trenches to his wife Marian Ida Butt.
He joined the 16th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (St Pancras)in late 1914/early 1915. He was promoted to 2nd Lieut on the 21st October 1915 and sent to France on 8th March 1916.
He met up with his brother Captain Harry A. Butt of the Gloucestershire Regt. in France in May 1916 as he was stationed nearby. Unfortunately Harry was killed a couple of weeks later on 8th June which Lewis probably never knew about. Lewis was killed on 4th July 1916 and is buried at Le Touret, Northern France not far from Harry's final resting place.
Lt. Leonard Horace Buttenshaw
British Army 4th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:St Albans
(d.27th June 1918)
Lieutenant Leonard Buttenshaw served with 4th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment and was attached to 9th Battalion at the time of his death.
Pte. Butterfield
British Army 9th Btn. B Coy. Royal Fusiliers
My Dads dad died in WW1. Pte Butterfield, I know dad had his medals and I have a photo of the regiment it says underneath 9th . S Bn . Royal Fusiliers B Coy. If anyone has a any info about him I would be grateful
Pte. Alex Butterfield
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
Alex Butterfield was wounded in August 1916
Pte. Jabez Butterfield
British Army 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley
(d.23rd August 1916)
Jabez Butterfield was killed in action on 23rd August 1916. He was a resident of 63 Cromwell Street, Burnley.
Gnr. Joseph Butterfield
Bermuda Militia Artillery
from:Ely's Harbour, Sandys Parish, Bermuda
(d.17th February 1915)
Gunner Butterfield was the Son of Angelina Butterfield of Ely's Harbour, Sandys Parish, Bermuda, and the late Thomas William Butterfield.
He was 33 when he died and is buried in the Somerset Military Burial Ground in Bermuda.
Pte. Thomas Butterfield
British Army 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:7 Heighington St. Aycliffe
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. Thomas Butterill
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th, 19th and 12th DLI
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".
Arthur Butterworth
British Army 494th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Oldham, Lancashire
Pte. Enoch Butterworth
British Army 6th Btn. Border Regiment
(d.13th Jul 1917)
My grandfather thinks his brother, Enoch Butterworth, was killed or wounded while playing in a military band in the centre of Ypers. A shell apprently landed in the middle of the group causing terrible damage. He is buried with seven others of the 6th at Belgian Battery corner cemetry, Ypers.
Pte.. Frank Butterworth
British Army Machine Gun Corps
2nd Lt. Harold Edmund Butterworth
British Army 9th Btn. Manchester Regiment
Harold Butterworth served at Suez then Gallipoli. He came back to Egypt and saw action against Turks in Sinai. He went to fight at Ypres and was captured as POW. He returned in December 1918 as Major.
2nd Lt. Thomas Butterworth
British Army 12th Btn. Royal Engineers
Thomas Butterworth enlisted into the East Lancashire Regiment Territorial Force on 17th of February 1910 aged 18. He was discharged & re-enlisted into the Royal Engineers on 9th January 1912 and posted to Training Battalion C Company. On 9th September 1912 he was posted to the 12th Battalion, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal on 28th Mach 1914 and paid Lance Corporal on 26th June 1914. Discharged on appointment to a Commission on 29th October 1914. He was commissioned as 2nd Lt. in The 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and he retired on Retired Pay on 11th November 1917 and died at Kilworth, Co. Cork, Ireland on 12h February 1958.
Pte. Thomas Albert Butterworth
British Army 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scotish Rifles)
from:Nelson, Lancs
(d.11th June 1916)
Thomas Butterworth as killed in action 11th of June 1916, aged 24. Buried in in the Bethune Town Cemetery, France he was the son of Joseph Ernest and Sarah Emily Butterworth, of 13, Cliffe St., Nelson, husband of Maria Butterworth, of 10, Crowther St., Nelson, Lancs Native of Dalton-in-Furness, Lancs
Rflmn. Edward Buttery
British Army 4th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
(d.18th Oct 1918)
Gnr. W. Buttle
British Army 173 Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.3rd December 1917)
Gunner Buttle was the son of Mrs E Buttle, Church Lane, Thornfalcon, Taunton, Somerset. He died on 3rd December 1917 and is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, France, Grave VIII.D.5.
Able Seaman. Alec Button
Royal Navy HMS Bayano
from:48, Friday Rd., Erith, Kent.
(d.11th Mar 1915)
My great uncle Alec Button was torpedoed in 1914 on the "Bayano" and was subsequently killed in 1915.
L/Sgt. Frank Button
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Friday Road, Erith, Kent.
(d.23rd Aug 1914)
My great uncle was killed by a snipers bullet at Mons in Belgium on the 23rd of August 1914. He is buried at St.Symphorien cemetery in Belgium. R.I.P. Uncle.. I have no other info. other than that his military record may of been destroyed in the bombing of London records office in ww2. I have found my other great uncles record on the C.W.G.C. Alec Button, he was torpedoed in 1914 on the Bayano and was subsequently killed.
Pte. William Button
British Army 1/4th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Bath
(d.23rd Oct 1917)
William Button served with the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Pte. William Butts
British Army Hertfordshire Regiment
from:Verulam Rd, Hitchin, Herts
(d.19 Nov 1914)
William was born in 1886 in Stockbridge, Hampshire to Emily and Isaac Butts. The family moved first to Brentford and then to Hitchin, Hertfordshire. William became a parchment maker, like his father.
William enlisted in August 1914 and arrived in Flanders in early November. Sadly he was killed by a land mine two weeks later. He has no known grave but his name in on the Menin Gate.
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