BUTCHER Arthur James Basil

  • First Name(s):
    Arthur 
    James 
    Basil 
  • Surname:
    BUTCHER
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • Battalion:
    17th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    3rd September 1916
  • Age At Death:
    32
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France, Grave II. F. 7.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Colonel Henry Townsend Butcher, (R.A.) and Annie Susan Butcher; husband of Gertrude T. Butcher, of Eastern Lodge, Kempsey, Worcester

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BUTCHER Arthur James Basil Is Named On These Memorials

Kempsey St Mary’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Listed on the memorial as Basil Butcher.

Further Information About BUTCHER Arthur James Basil

His father also fell in the 1914-1918 War and his brother; Trevor Aveling Butcher fell in the 1939-1945 War

A photograph of Lieutenant Butcher of Kempsey can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 23rd September 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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