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Pte. Henry Butcher
British Army 7th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:48 Larch St. Hightown, Manchester
(d.7th Aug 1915)
My Great Uncle Henry Butcher was a boy of 23 years when he died in action at Galipoli on the 7th of August 1915. He was in the great regiment the Manchesters. He enlisted in 1914 in Manchester, Lancashire. I'm 71 years of age. I never knew this hero of ours until I got my first computer a year ago.
What a very short life he lived, but I want to try and imagine of the time of him enlisting and his death. This period must have been wonderful,the pals he must have made,the wonderful times they had. These are not your day to day pals,these are chaps you bonded with, you trusted, you knew they would never ever let you down. he must have felt safe, in their company,and they in his. In those two years must have been the happy years of his short life. So, I for one, am grateful for that. So many boys, and they were boys, died this this a dreadful war.
God bless all those who died when fighting in the Manchester Regiment. They did this Regiment proud.
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