G E O R G E B U T T E R W O R T H

105 years ago today the composer, folk song collector and morris dancer was killed on the Somme. He was buried by his comrades, but his grave was later lost. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.

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SUNRISE ON THE SOMME

In early August 1916, Lt. George Butterworth of 13th Bn. Durham Light Infantry watches the sunrise across the trench named after him just outside the Somme hamlet of Pozieres.

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