WW2 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
ALFRED CHARLTON BUTLER
Service Number LT/JX 185930 (from CWGC website, but the grave is engraved LT/JZ 185930 )
Died 21 December 1944 in Gosport Naval Hospital
Aged 31
H.M. Motor Minesweeper 186. Royal Naval Patrol Service
Buried in Barfield Road Cemetery, West Mersea, Grave 327.
Commemorated on West Mersea War Memorial and also the Memorial Plaque in West Mersea School
Alfred Butler was born 10 September 1919 in Fleetwood. He and brother Edward were sons of William and Emma Butler née Denney.
William died in 1918 and Emma married George Arthur Vince in Fleetwood in 1919. They moved to Mersea where George had come from.
Emma died in 1929 and George Arthur Vince married Doris Ethel (or Ethel) Pamment in Colchester 30 Apr 1930.
Alfred started school at West Mersea 13 September 1920. [ School Log Book ]. By 1939 he was living at Ferndale, 2 Mill Road, with his step-aunt Flora Ada Vince, and his occupation is shown as yachting and fishing.
Alfred was serving on H.M. MMS 186 in December 1944 and died in Gosport Naval Hospital, but the cause of his death is not known.
Motor Minesweeper 186 was built Irvine, Peterhead in 1942 and sold out of service in 1946.
Arthur Charlton Butler grave in Barfield Road Cemetery, West Mersea
With thanks to
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Roger Bullen
Julia Summers
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