John Butler
He attended: Beardall Street, School, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, he had been a Grocery Assistant for the Co-Operative Society.
The 1939 Register records him as a Bus Driver for Nottingham Corporation Transport.
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Born : 6th May 1914 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
The youngest Child & Son of Reuben Butler and Hannah Butler nee Williams of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Brother of : Reuben Butler Junior : Born : 1902 : Walter Butler : Born : 1904 : Thomas Butler : Born : 1906 : Frederick Butler : Born : 1908 : Cyril Butler : Born : 1910 : Gladys May Butler : Born : 1913.
According to the 1921 Census the Family were living at : 133. Portland Road, Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Reuben Butler Senior, a Coal Miner Hewer, aged, 41 years, Hannah Butler, aged 40 years, 3 months : Reuben Butler Junior, a Coal Miner Hewer, aged, 19 years, 2 months : Walter Butler, a Coal Miner, Pony Driver-Underground, aged, 16 years, 10 months : Thomas Butler, a Coal Miner, Pony Driver-Underground, aged, 15 years, 3 months : Frederick Butler, an Errand Boy, aged, 13 years 4 months : Cyril Butler, aged, 11 years, 2 months : John Butler, aged, 6 years 9 months.
All the Miners in the Family worked at the Sherwood Colliery Limited.
Husband of Gladys Annie Butler nee Smalley, of : 47. Walton Avenue, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, they were married in the second quarter of 1938.
Father of an unnamed Daughter, whom he met at Harlow Wood Hospital for the first time on Easter Sunday 1944 when she was 1 year and nine months old.
Enlisted : 24th June 1940 : Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Served with the Expeditionary Force in North Africa with the 14th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, drafted on the 31st December 1942.
Wounded at Anzio, Italy on the 14th March 1944.
He spent two weeks in a Military Hospital before returning to the Uk, where he transferred to Harlow Wood Hospital, near Mansfield, Nottignhamshire where he died of : Papaplegia, aged 29 years.
Buried : Hucknall Cemetery, Broomhill Road, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Grave Reference : Section : D. : Grave 411.
Photo of John Butler
Photograph of Private, John Butler's headstone in Hucknall Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, by Gary Crosby on the 26th May 2025.
Photo of John Butler
Photograph of the Chapel & Churchyard in Hucknall Cemetery, Nottinghamshire where Private, John Butler is buried by Gary Crosby on the 13th April 2025.
Photo of John Butler
Photograph of Private, John Butler added by Gary Crosby on the 19th June 2025, Courtesy of The Sherwood Foresters Roll.