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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Butler John William
|Army number=1568865
|Rank=Gunner.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Thought to have been born in 1912 in Lancashire.
|Age=At the time of his death 32 years.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to the 143rd Field Regiment.  Served Normandy.  Killed in action 30/7/1944.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Gunner, but yet to be confirmed.
|Joined Brigade=To be confirmed but probably when 143rd Field Regiment was assigned to the Brigade Group.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Killed in Action 30/7/1944 aged 32.  Initially interred Near Giberville GSGS 4250, Sheet 72/2 1/50,000, Reference 08806775.  Reburied 8/4/1946 in Banneville la Campagne War Cemetery, Grave XII F.12.  Headstone inscription reads "AT REST".
|Home address=Son of Annie Butler and stepson of Herbert Smith.  Husband of Elsie Butler of Stonegate, East Yorkshire.