Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three to Private E. Butterworth, Northumberland Fusiliers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (40071 Pte., 1/North’d. Fus.), unit officially corrected; British War and Victory Medals (40071 Pte., North’d. Fus.) together with Memorial Plaque (Ernest Butterworth) extremely fine (4) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918.

Ernest Butterworth was born in Charlston, Armagh and enlisted at Wakefield, Yorkshire. Serving initially as Private 65388 in the 23rd Battalion, he was later transferred to the 1st Battalion where he won the M.M. With the same unit he was killed in action on 13 April 1918. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium.