The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Butler

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Walter BUTLER, L/10423, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 73rd Field Ambulance, Flanders France, 28th March 1916.

Born Sittingbourne, Kent.

Enlisted Chatham, Kent, age 18 years & 6 days, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 120lbs, tattoo W.B. left arm, sallow complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair. Formerly mill labourer.

Home 6th August 1914 to 29th September 1915; BEF 30th September 1915 to 28th March 1916.

6th August 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th October 1914, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th September 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th March 1916, wounded, gun shot wound scalp, fractured skull.

7th June 1919 Statement of Relatives - Brothers - Edward Butler, age, serving in Army, in Italy, (Staff Sergeant in RASC), (1921 serving in Palestine); Leonard Butler, age 24, sailor somewhere at sea; Sisters - Mrs Ellen Elizabeth Nicholls, age 40, 42 Union Road, Milton Regis, Sittingbourne; Mrs Charlotte Gregory, age 37, 144 Lowfield Street, Dartford, Kent; Mrs Mary Kimber, age 35, Bell Alley, Mile Town, Sheerness; Mrs R Hogben, age 33, lives at Sandwich; Miss Butler, age 25, lives at London.

Buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery, I.B.17., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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