John Compton Butterworth (17 August 1905 – 18 March 1941) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex in 1925 and Oxford University in 1926.
[1] He was born in Samarang, Java (then part of the Dutch East Indies), and was educated at Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
[2] However, during World War II he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery[3] and was killed at Shooter's Hill, London when a bomb exploded near his anti-aircraft battery.
[4] His younger brother, Reginald Compton Butterworth, who was also a first-class cricketer, was killed in action less than a year earlier.
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