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Surname: BUTLER
Forename(s): Sammy
Place of Birth: Earby, Yorkshire
Service No: 32247
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Northumberland Fusiliers
Battalion / Unit: 21st (Service) Battalion. (2nd Tyneside Scottish)
Division: 34th Division
Age: 35
Date of Death: 1917-10-14
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. B. 25.
CWGC Cemetery: SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: EARBY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Sammy Butler was the son of William and Hannah Butler, née Gill. William was born at Chaddleworth, Berkshire and Hannah at Addingham, Yorkshire.
1891 Kelbrook, Yorkshire Census: Laycock - Sammy Butler, aged 8 years, born Earby, son of William and Hannah Butler.
1901 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 20, Langroyd Road - Sammy Butler, aged 18 years, born Earby, son of William and Hannah Butler.
1911 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 10, Bethesda Street - Sammy Butler, aged 28 years, born Earby. [Also living with Sammy was his younger sister, Annie Butler and a boarder, Mary Ann Heys, aged 27 years, born Kelbrook, Yorkshire, c. 1884, the mother of two children who were not with her when the census was taken.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Sammy Butler, 32247, North'd Fus. K. in A.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Sammy Butler, 32247, 21st North'd Fus. K. in A.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Sammy Butler, 32247, 21 Northd. Fus. Date and Place of Death: 14.10.17 France or Belgm. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Sole legatee - Mary A. Heys. £7 14s. 0d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Sammy. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Mary Ann Heys. Relationship to soldier: Unofficial wife. Address 1. 31, Highfield Road, Earby. Address 2. 32, Green End Road, Earby.
Sammy is commemorated in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.
See also:
‘Earby in the First World War’ by Stephanie Carter, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2014).
‘Our Finest Crop’ by Steven Marshall, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2020).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
BUTLER, S., aged 35, N.F., 31, Highfield Road, [Earby], killed in action Oct. 14, 1917.
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Private Sammy BUTLER
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Northumberland Fusiliers
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 34th Division
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16 Novemeber 1917
BUTLER - October 14th 1917, killed in action on the Western Front, Private Sammy Butler, Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly of Earby, aged 35 years.
16 November 1917
EARBY FAMILIES BEREAVED
Private Sammy Butler, Northumberland Fusiliers, officially reported killed in action on October 14th was 35 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children living at 31, Highfield Road, Earby. He went out to France in December last, and was slightly wounded in the July push. In civil life he was a weaver employed by Messrs. T. H. Hartley Ltd., Brook Shed.
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16 November 1917
BUTLER - Oct. 14th, killed in action, Pte. S. Butler, Northumberland Fusiliers, of 31, Highfield Road, Earby, aged 35.
16 Novemeber 1917
EARBY FAMILIES BEREAVED
Pte. Sammy Butler, Northumberland Fusiliers, officially reported killed in action on Oct. 14th, was 35 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children living at 31, Highfield Road, Earby. He went out to France in December last, and was slightly wounded in the July push. In civil life he was a weaver employed by Messrs. T.H. Hartley, Ltd., Brook Shed.
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