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Private JOHN STRICKLAND BUTTERWORTH

Service Number: 3709778
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ANSTAING COMMUNAL CEMETERY

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Augustus and Margaret Butterworth; husband of Mary Elizabeth Butterworth, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL
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Buried or commemorated at

ANSTAING COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Nord France
Number of casualties: 1
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