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Henry B. Butterworth

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Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1917 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Henry B. AWMM
  • Surname
    Butterworth AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Henry Benjamin Butterworth AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 30739 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mrs L. Haddock (sister), Papatoetoe, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 30739 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Carpenter/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • Brother of Charles Herbert Butterworth (12/302), of Thames, who also served during World War I. AWMM
    • Half brother of Harold Butterworth shot down over France 1916. Public - Cheryl - Other relative - 26 April 2018 - Via searches of historic births deaths and marriages. Both sons of Benjamin M Butterworth. Newspaper report "Brothers at War" (ref Papers Past) referring to Henry Benjamin Butterworth; Charles H. Butterworth (noting Charles H. served at Gallipoli and serving in France) ; and noting Flt Lt Harold Butterworth shot down over France. Henry Benjamin Butterworth was born in 1886; Charles Herbert Butterworth in 1888 their mother Elizabeth Jane Hutson. She died 1892. Benjamin M Butterworth married Eliza Ann Stephenson (nee Winstone, father William Winstone) 1894. Harold was their first child together.
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Death

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  • Death
    9 June 1917 AWMM
    Belgium, Europe AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Died of wounds AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France AWMM III. C. 143. AWMM
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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    • Mount Albert War Memorial Hall, 773 New North Road, Mount Albert Auckland 1025 AWMM
    • Mount Albert Methodist Church, 831 New North Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 AWMM
    • Mount Albert Methodist Church, 831 New North Road, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 AWMM
    • Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
    • Manurewa War Memorial, Great South Road, Manurewa AWMM

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26 April 2018CherylLower Hutt NZOther relative

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