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Private JOHN BUTTERWORTH

Service Number: 20048
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

B. 13.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 24th (Tyneside Irish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Ellen Butterworth; husband of Sarah Hannah Butterworth, of 44, Harehill St., Todmorden, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE THY DUTY'S DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 443
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