Lance Corporal Norman Butcher

Army Number: 18629

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.M. (Military Medal)

Born at Thornleigh, Yorkshire. Son of Jesse and Florence Eliza Butcher, of 29, Station Road, Clowne, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He was a coal labourer prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He went to France on 18th March 1915. He was awarded the Military Medal London Gazette. 21st September 1916, “For gallantry and leadership on 5th July 1916, when in the attack on the German positions near La Boisselle (Tara Line close to the Albert – Poziers road.)” He was killed in action, on 5th March 1917, aged 21. during an enemy bombardment of Pallas Trench, Andover, in the Albert Area, France.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Lance Corporal Norman Butcher is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Clowne War Memorial, Clowne, Derbyshire.