McTaggart, L/Cpl James 14364988 Died: 29 March
1945 aged 31. Rome War Cemetery, Italy II D 13.

Buttle, Pte George Edward 4469461 Died 16 April
1945 aged 34. Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany 3 A
19.

Burnett, Pte Robert 2383245 Died: 30 April 1945 aged 24. Salerno War Cemetery, Italy V F 36.

Barrett, Pte Percy 4464692 Died: 17 May 1945 aged 31. Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria 6 A 10.

Gunn, Pte Welsh 4465603 Died: 23 June 1945 aged 33. South Shields (Harton) Cemetery Co Durham Section 8 Grave 6731.

Henderson, Pte John 14256642 Died: 14 February 1946 aged 22. Klagenfurt War Cemetery, Austria 3 C 2.

Ashton, Pte Walter 4626899 Died: 1 August 1946 aged 29. Bradford (Oughtibridge Cemetery) Yorkshire, Grave 80.

This item from the Middlesborough Evening Gazette of November 23rd 1943 records Pte George Buttle’s transfer from Italy to Germany. Listed as a POW in Stalag 344 in early 1945, Pte Buttle was one of several ex-16th DLI men to die in German captivity.

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