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Pilot Officer REGINALD EDMUND COMPTON BUTTERWORTH

Service Number: 77531
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

13 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 21 May 1940

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. MARTIN-AU-LAERT CHURCHYARD

Grave 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Reginald and Cornelia Butterworth; husband of Elisabeth Werner Butterworth, of Putney, London.
  • Personal Inscription RARE PRECURSORS OF A NOBLER BREED WHO COME MAN'S GOLDEN GLORY TO FORETELL
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. MARTIN-AU-LAERT CHURCHYARD
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3
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