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Jack (John) Botterill was born in Beverley in 1890 and attended St Mary’s Boys School. He had five sisters and three brothers. His younger brother, James Botterill was killed in action in Nov 1916. The family lived at 4 Far Grove, Norwood during the war. His father Snowball Botterill was a groom at a racing stables, who was paralysed, and died in 1911. His mother, Esther Botterill did not remarry. Jack was a farm labourer (plough boy) and in 1911 he is working at Mr Thomas Whipp’s farm at Etton, near Beverley. He was unmarried.
Jack enlisted at Driffield during Easter 1915. Initially he was a private in the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was transferred to the 7th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment as a private, the regiment were in France on the Western Front from 1915 to the end of the war. Jack was killed in action on 18 Sep 1918 during the Battle of Epehy in NW France and was buried in Gouzecourt New British Cemetery. Jack is commemorated on the Norwood Street Shrine, the St Mary’s Boys School and St Mary’s Church Rolls of Honour, on the East Yorkshire Regiment Memorial in Beverley Minster and on the Hengate War Memorial.
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