Lance Corporal Percy Butler

Army Number: 11976

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Crewton, Derbyshire. Son of Joseph and Sarah Ann Butler, of 37, Chambers Street, Crewton, Derbyshire. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th September 1914, when the battalion was ordered to retake trenches taken by the Germans at the head of the Troyon Valley, France, during the Battle of the Aisne.

Commemorated: La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.