Leslie Manoh (Les) BUTTERICK

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BUTTERICK, Leslie Manoh

Service Number:	1899
Enlisted:	19 May 1915, Keswick, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Port Pirie, South Australia, 2 May 1890
Home Town:	Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia
Schooling:	Solomontown Public School, South Australia
Occupation:	Timber Merchant (Messrs Charles Geddes & Co)
Died:	Killed in Action, Pozières, France, 4 August 1916, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Pirie Oval WW1 Memorial Gates, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

19 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1899, Keswick, South Australia
26 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1899, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Morea embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
26 Aug 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1899, 27th Infantry Battalion, RMS Morea, Adelaide
12 Oct 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1899, 27th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
4 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1899, 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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Biography

Born: 22 May 1890 in Port Pirie, South Australia
(Birth Record South Australia 1842 - 1906 Book: 459 Page: 484 District: Cla.)

Father Samuel BUTTERICK and Mother Alma Butterick (nee Gosden)
Leslie lived with his parents at 54 King Street, Solomontown, South Australia.

Siblings:
Brother:         Stanley Howard Butterick (b. 4/11/1882 Gladstone - d. ____)
                      (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 293 Page: 266 District: Cla.)
Twin Brother: Clarence Daniel Butterick (b. 16/2/1885 Gladstone - d. ____)
                      (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 344 Page: 93 District: Cla.)
Twin Sister:     Ella Maude Butterick (b. 16/2/1885 Gladstone - d. ____)
                      (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 344 Page: 93 District: Cla.)
Sister:            Olive Ruby Butterick (b. 26/5/1892 Solomontown - d. _____ )
                      (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 501 Page: 378 District: Cla.)
Brother:        Harold Maxwell Butterick (b. 30/9/1893 Port Pirie - d. ____)
                      (SA Birth Records 1842 - 1906 Book: 529 Page: 30 District: Cla.)

Next of kin in service:
Cousin (1st): 2331 Pte James Raymond BUTTERICK (from Appila, near Tarcowie SA)
                   10th Battalion (enlisted 25/6/1915 - embarked 13/10/1915)
   returned to Australia, 14/12/1918
Cousin (1st): 2342 Pte George Arthur BUTTERICK (from Appila, near Tarcowie SA)
                     10th Battalion (enlisted 30/3/1915 - embarked 23/6/1915)
    killed in action, Pozieres, France 23/7/1916

Prior to enlisting Leslie worked for the past 8 years with Messrs Charles Geddes & Co,
Port Pirie as a timber merchant.

Described on enlisting as 25 years old; single; 5' 9" tall; 138 lbs; fair complexion;
blue eyes; fair hair; Methodist.

19/5/1915      Enlisted in Keswick, South Australia
                     completed medical at Port Pirie, fit for service
                     Commanding Officer appointed Leslie to 3rd reinforcements
                     27th Infantry at Mitcham Camp

26/8/1915      Embarked from Outer Harbour, Port Adelaide on board RMS Morea
                     as a Private with 7th Infantry Brigade, 27th Infantry Battalion,
                     3rd reinforcements

12/10/1915 Joined 27th Battalion from 3rd reinforcements, GALLIPOLI Peninsula

At Gallipoli, the 7th Brigade, which included the 27th Battalion, reinforced the weary New Zealand and Australian Division. The 27th had a relatively quiet time at Gallipoli and the battalion departed the peninsula in December, having suffered only light casualties.

10/1/1916 Disembarked into Alexandria, ex Mudros

After another stint in Egypt, the 7th Brigade proceeded to France as part of the 2nd Australian Division.

15/3/1916 Proceeded to join Britih Expeditionary Forces, Alexandria
21/3/1916 Disembarked ex Alexandria into Marseilles, France

The 27th Battalion entered the front-line trenches for the first time on 7/4/1916 and took part in its first major Battle at Pozières between 28 July and 5 August 1916.

29 July 1916 - in Charles Bean, diary (www.awm.gov.au)
"Pozières has been a terrible sight all day … The men were simply turned in there as into some ghastly giant mincing machine. They have to stay there while shell after huge shell descends with a shriek close beside them … each shrieking tearing crash bringing a promise to each man – instantaneous – I will tear you into ghastly wounds – I will rend your flesh and pulp an arm or a leg – fling you half a gaping quivering man (like those that you see smashed around you one by one) to lie there rotting and blackening like all the things you saw by the awful roadside, or in that sickening dusty crater."

4/8/1916 reported missing in action, France

4/8/1916 Killed on the Ridge at Pozieres, France

5/8/1916
buried by: Reverend W E Dexter (attached to 1st Anzac)
buried in: behind the Windmill, near Mouquest Farm, at Pozieres Battlefield

NO known grave.
His name is commemorated at the Australian National War Memorial France
- Villers-Bretonneux, France

Medals:
1914-1915 Star (22521); British War Medal (18514); Victory Medal (18445);
Memorial Plaque and Memorial Scroll (313661).

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 1/2/2015. Lest we forget.

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