Herbert Henry Butcher

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772776

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Grace Anglican Church

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Kent

Birth city:

Dover

Address at enlistment:

134 Market Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

46 Eaton Road, Dover, Kent, England

Trade or calling:

Painter

Employer:

R. Chave and Co.

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX November 4, 1918

Miss MacDonald has received word that Private Herbert Henry Butcher has been wounded at the battle of Cambrai with shrapnel in the neck and also a bullet wound, and is now in hospital in Sheffield, England. He went from Brantford with the 125th Battalion and worked with R. Chave of this city as a painter.

BX September 13, 1967

Herb Butcher Dies at 74

Herbert H. Butcher Sr., 74, of 7 Hilda Street, died today at the Brantford General Hospital. Born in Dover, England, Mr. Butcher had been a resident of Brantford since 1911.

He was a veteran of the First World War, enlisting with the 125th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, and transferred overseas to the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, and was wounded in action.

Mr. Butcher returned to Brantford in 1920 and in 1924 established his own painting and decorating business (now H.H. Butcher and Son).

Mr. Bucher was a past master of Reba Lodge and was a 32nd degree Mason. He was a member of the Scottish Rite Association and Mocha Temple in London, and a member of Grace Anglican Church in Brantford.

Surviving are his wife, the former Elizabeth G. MacDonald; one son, Herbert D.; and three grandchildren, all of Brantford. A son, P.O. Jack Butcher of the RCAF, was killed in action in 1943.

Mr. Butcher is at the Beckett Funeral Home until Friday when service will be conducted at Grace Church at 2 p.m.

Interment will be in Farringdon Burial Ground with Ven. Archdeacon F.C. McRitchie officiating.