Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. William Butts

British Army Hertfordshire Regiment

from:Verulam Rd, Hitchin, Herts

(d.19 Nov 1914)

William was born in 1886 in Stockbridge, Hampshire to Emily and Isaac Butts. The family moved first to Brentford and then to Hitchin, Hertfordshire. William became a parchment maker, like his father.

William enlisted in August 1914 and arrived in Flanders in early November. Sadly he was killed by a land mine two weeks later. He has no known grave but his name in on the Menin Gate.



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