Lance Corporal Ralph Butteriss

Ralph Butteriss was a Private in the 1st/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, service number 240513.

He was the son of Fred & Lucy Ann Butteriss, of Kibworth, and husband of Fanny Butteriss (nee Capell), of High Street, Kibworth Beauchamp. Ralph & Fanny were married in 1908.

He was aged 31 when he was killed on 17th August 1917.

Private Butteriss was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the Victory Medal and the British War Medal, and is buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France, plot reference I. U. 48.