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Private WILLIAM ROBERT BUTCHER

Service Number: 51477
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

21st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1917

Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY

X. G. 2.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Charles and Kathleen Maud Butcher, of 33, Victoria Rd., St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription 2/6TH BATTALION ENLISTED SEPT. 1914 DEARLY LOVED, DEEPLY MOURNED SADLY MISSED
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Buried or commemorated at

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5916
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