More about Thomas Butchart

Thomas has no known grave but is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Formally 154, Royal Engineers,

Thomas Butchart   76275   Sherwood Foresters

Pte. Tom Butchart, Sherwood Foresters, is officially reported missing on 16th August.  He joined in October 1915, and has been at the front since January this year.  In a letter to Mrs Butchart, who resides at 47 Hill Street, his Lieutenant states :^___”Your husband was a man whom I greatly valued, and had proved his sterling worth.  He was keen, efficient, and brave, and in his constant care for members in his section when under heavy fire and in wretched weather was magnificent.”  Pte. Butchart, who was an enthusiastic member of Fairfield F. C., is a son-in-law of Mr C. C. Graham, 45 Arbroath Road, at one time a sergeant in the 1st Forfar and latterly 1st V.B.R.H.

Dundee People’s Journal 29th September 1917