Name
Charles James Bartlett Butterfield
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/08/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13056
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XV.L.1.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Knebworth Village Memorial, Knebworth (Old),
St Martin's Church Memorial, Knebworth (New),
St Martin's Church Framed Memorial Knebworth (New),
The British Legion -Knebworth & District Branch ROH, St Martin Church, Knebworth (New),
St Mary & St Thomas Church Memorial, Knebworth Park,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Charles James Bartlett Butterfield was born in 1895 in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, the son and only child of Thomas and Annie Butterfield, another sibling having died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census Charles was recorded living with his mother at the home of her cousin Samuel Bartlett and his family at 25 Second Avenue, Paddington, London. In 1911 he was living with his parents at Station Road, Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Both he and his father were working as gardeners domestic.
He married Winifred May Philpotts in early 1915 and they lived at The Briar Patch, Old Knebworth, Nr Stevenage, Herts. They had a son, Charles Ronald Butterfield Philpotts who had been born on 8 April 1914, before the marriage.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Codicote, Herts and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion in France from 1 June 1915. Charles was one of 69 men who joined the Battalion in the field on 5 June at Les Choquaux billets. He would have seen action ten days later at Givenchy and in September at the Battle of Loos.
Charles died on 6 August 1917 from the effects of being gassed, probably during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge (part of the Third Battle of Ypres), and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £14 and pay owing of £9 18s 2d. She also received a pension of 18s 9d a week for herself and her son.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson
