36309 Francis Wyndham Arthur BUTTERWORTH

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    Lieutenant Colonel BUTTERWORTH, FRANCIS WYNDHAM ARTHUR
    Service Number 36309
    Died 06/11/1944
    Aged 37
    West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own), Cdg. 2nd Bn Gloucestershire Regiment
    D S O, M B E
    Son of Colonel R. F. A. Butterworth, C.M.G., D.S.O., formerly of the Royal Engineers, and Margaret Elaine Butterworth, of Fareham, Hampshire; husband of Alison Margaret Butterworth.
    INSCRIPTION: AND, AS THE MORNING CAME, JESUS STOOD ON THE SHORE
    Buried at BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY
    Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
    Cemetery/memorial reference: 9. B. 15.

    Died of Wounds
     
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    Yorkshire Post Wednesday 15th November 1944
     
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    British Army Officers 1939-1945  -- B
    "In the Netherlands, the advance from Roosendaal on Stampersgat was held up by fierce defence German defence around the local sugar refinery. During the planning of a large scale attack to deal with the resistance, Lt.Col. Butterworth was mortally wounded in the chest when the Battalion HQ (at the Dorpsstraat at Oud-Gastel) got three direct hits at 08.30 hrs on 2 Nov. Butterworth was moved by ambulance to 30 Field Dressing Station at Essen (Belgium), was operated upon, but his condition deteriorated and he finally succumbed to his his wounds in the afternoon of 6 Nov."
     
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