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Sapper JOHN WILLIAM BUTTERFIELD

Service Number: 470317
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

447th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 July 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. ERME COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

B. 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John R. and Mary E. Butterfield; husband of Mary Margaret Butterfield, of Oswald Terrace South, Castletown, Sunderland. Born at Castletown.
  • Personal Inscription SOMETIME WE'LL UNDERSTAND
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. ERME COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 84
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