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{{Personnel
|id=1565
|Surname and forenames=Rutherford Joseph
|Army number=4459419
|Rank=Pte
|Date of birth=Born 7/12/1917.
|Age=22 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no exact Enlistment Date as yet, but his Regimental Number suggests late Summer or Autumn 1939.  Posted ? 12th Battalion DLI.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the BEF in France.   KILLED in ACTION 20/5/40 at Ficheux.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939 or shortly thereafter.
|Died/Killed in action=20-May-40.  Buried Memorial Plot 8, Row B, Grave 12, [[BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY]], Ficheux.  Headstone inscription reads - ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM. R.I.P.
|Home address=Son of James and Ellen Rutherford, lived at 7, Judson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne.  Worked as an upholsterer in a factory.  Husband of Rosemary Rutherford, Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne.  Marriage details not yet traced. 
|Image Name=Rutherford_J_4459419.JPG
|Image Title=Pte J Rutherford's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=1TS
}}