Lance Corporal Albert Edward Butcher

Army Number: 200401 (formerly 2200)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Son of John Henry and Elizabeth Hannah Butcher, of 20 Kingston Avenue Hallam Fields, Ilkeston. He enlisted at Ilkeston and went to France on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Arras Memorial, France.

Lance Corporal Albert Edward Butcher is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Ilkeston Town War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.