Corporal Claude Butters

Army Number: 4623

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

Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of David and Jane Butters, of Birkin Avenue, Hyson Green, Nottingham. He was a Coal Miner prior to enlisting, 21st August 1913. He went to France on 11th November 1914 and was promoted to Corporal on 1st June 1918. He died of wounds, 19th October 1918, aged 23, at 74th General Hospital, Trouville, France.

Buried: Tourgeville Military Cemetery, France. Plot 4, Row E Grave 6.

Corporal Claude Butters is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private David Butters, 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.