Name
Stanley George Butterfield
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1421
Royal Fusiliers *1
13th Bn. *1
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8C 9A and 16 A
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Ayot St Peter Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Peter's Church, Ayot St Peter, Not on the Welwyn memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Ayot Green - see Ayot St Peter
Pre War
Stanley George Butterfield was born in 1894 in Welwyn, Herts to James and Eliza Butterfield and baptised on 23 September 1894 at St Peter's Church. Ayot St Peter, Nr Welwyn, Herts.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at White Hill, Welwyn and his father was a general farm labourer. His father died in 1910 and on the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother and family in Ayot Green, Nr Welwyn, and working as a brickyard labourer at the brick & tile works.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Welwyn and served with the Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment).
He was killed in action at the end of the first week of the Battle of the Somme. His body was not recovered for burial, or not identified and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Additional Information
His mother Eliza received a war gratuity of £8 10s and a pension of 5 shillings a week from 8 May 1917.
1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.ayotstpeter.com
