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Pte. Albert Butler
British Army 1st Battlaion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Handsworth, Birmingham
(d.1st July 1916)
Albert Butler was my maternal grandmother's first husband, marrying in Aston, Birmingham 1913. Not sure how he came to sign up with the KOSB, but it would seem that he enrolled at Rugby, near Coventry before being shipped off to Gallipoli in 1914 before being shipped with his regiment to France.
The 1st Battalion were one of the first units to go over the top at the Somme on July 1st 1916 and Albert Butler was killed in action, with no known grave.
His name is featured on the Thiepval Monument and on the Bilston, West Midlands War Memorial. It's assumed that his wife, Edith (my grandmother) had moved there whilst Butler was serving in the forces