George Butterworth
English composer
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer who was best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad. Wikipedia
Born: July 12, 1885, Paddington, London, United Kingdom
Died: August 5, 1916 (age 31 years), Pozières, France
Parents: Alexander Kaye Butterworth and Julia Marguerite Wigan
Place of burial: Thiepval Memorial, Authuille, France
Rank: Subaltern
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