Grenville Kitchener Butcher

Memorial: Cromhall - St Andrews Church

Regiment: Corps of Military Police

Medals: 1939–45 Star, Italy Star, War Medal 1939–1945

Rank and number: Lance Corporal 7691862

Marital status: Married

Home address: Whitfield Farm Cottages, Falfield, Glos

Pre-war occupation: Stockman

Date of birth: 13/03/1915

Place of birth: Shropshire

Date of death: 08/09/1944

Buried/Commemorated at: Florence War Cemetery, Italy (Plot VIII. J. 4)

Age: 29

Further information:

Son of a stockman, he was a stockman himself and married Cissie Munslow, a former cook, in 1940.

He died in Northern Italy during the Italian campaign as the result of an accident during WW2 (Casualty list no. 1558).

Grenville is also remembered on the Cromhall Village War Memorial.

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
http://www.glosgen.co.uk/warmem/cromhallwm.htm
http://www.falfield.org.uk/butcher.html