Name
Frank Ernest William Butt
25/10/1872
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/04/1931
58
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
West India Regiment
Att 124th Bn. Canadian Expeditionary Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Individual Plaque, Layston Church, Layston (now called St Bartholomew's Church)
Pre War
Son of William (1826-1911) and Sophia Butt (1838-1908) of Bedford & Corney Bury (in Parish Wyddiall). Born Paddington, London on 25th October 1872. His siblings were: Herbert Leonard Gawain (1874- ), Thomas Arthur Frederic (1874-1878), Beatrice J M (1870- ), Diana Edith Sophia (1879- ) and Gladys Ellinor May (1881- )
The Layston Church website, referring to his individual plaque, which is inside the chancel on the right as you enter it from the side door , reveals "Amongst other things too numerous to mention we find his sign up papers for the Army for the Great War although he signed up for the 255th battalion rather than the 124th mentioned on the memorial. Another mystery also popped up in guise of his brother Herbert who we had found no mention of up to now. Frank, that’s the F in F.E.W., emigrated to Canada after leaving the West India Regiment and became a farmer. Herbert we have since discovered lived in Santa Fe in Argentina - and all this from one small memorial."
Wartime Service
Captain in the West India Regiment and was wounded while serving with the 124th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-18.
Additional Information
Died on the 4th April 1931 and has an individual plaque in Layston Church (now called St Bartholomew's Church)
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Martin & Mandy - http://www.layston-church.org.uk/journal4.html
