Name
Edward Henry Underwood Buttanshaw
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/04/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
IV. C. 16.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 17 Sep 1892 at Aldershot, Hampshire son of Col. and Mrs. Edward Thornton Buttanshaw, of Scots Craig, Hythe, Kent. Educated at Haileybury College 1906-10 and the Royal Military College, Camberley.
Wartime Service
The battalion was in Madras at the outbreak of WW1 and returned to England on 16 Nov 1914. Mobilised for war and entered France on 17 Jan 1915 and was killed in action near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
