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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Rutter John Edward
|Army number=4810020
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=1923/4 - actual date not yet traced.
|Age=21 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment - date not yet known.  Underwent Basic Training.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment.  Served in North West Europe.  KILLED in ACTION 23/1/1945.
|Company/Battery=Thought to be 452 Battery.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not yet ascertained.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|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 23/1/1945, at Waldfeucht.  Buried in Grave E 16, Sittard War Cemetery, Limburg, Netherlands.  Headstone inscription reads "OUR DEAR SON JOHN, EVER LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, MARGARET, JOAN, BERYL AND MARY". 
|Home address=Son of John George and Mary Rutter of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire. 
}}

No Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk

The Regimental History included an error in his Army Number - the one used above is as shown by CWGC.