BUTCHERS, Raymond

Cassino War Cemetery, ItalyCredit: CWGC

Private
6th Battalion
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Raymond was born 1923 in Newport to Arthur Henry & Violet May (nee FOSS) BUTCHERS of Brighstone.

Raymond, aged 20, was killed on the 21st of March 1944 whilst crossing a mine field & was originally buried near to where he fell. His body was exhumed, by No.1 Section New Zealand Graves Concentration Unit & reburied in the Cassino War Cemetery, Italy on the 10th of April 1945, beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “NOT GONE FROM MEMORY NOT GONE FROM LOVE BUT GONE TO HIS FATHER'S HOME ABOVE”. Raymond rests alongside over 4,000 of his Second World War comrades, with 289 still to be identified.

Raymond is also remembered on the Brighstone War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.