BUTLER, Henry Edward
| Service Number: | 803 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia, 29 July 1891 |
| Home Town: | Moonah, Glenorchy, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Geeveston State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Egypt, 12 January 1917, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bruny Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 803, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 803, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Hessen embarkation_ship_number: A45 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 803, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, SS Hessen, Melbourne | |
| 12 Jan 1917: | Involvement Trooper, 803, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 803 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1917-01-12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Trooper HE Butler was wounded in the Battle of Rafa, near Palestine, on 9 January 1917, and died of wounds soon after. He was 25. Trooper Butler was buried at the Military Cemetery El Ariah, in Egypt, and is commemorated at the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt.
His brother, 69 Private Gerald Bertram Butler, 52nd Battalion AIF, was killed in action 10 August 1916, Pozieres. Age 21.
Isabella and Constable John Butler, the parents of Private and Trooper Butler, had divorced in 1912. Constable Butler later remarried. Constable Butler was stationed at Alonnah in charge of the Bruny Island Tasmanian police district during the war years.
Isabella Butler, of Albert Park, Victoria, wrote to Victoria Barracks in Melbourne, on 29 July 1922, requesting “you will duly consider allocating one or more of the mementos to cherish in memory of those whom I am the mother….to you I plead to grant me this measure of relief and prevent the whole of the mementos getting into the hands of those who can never value them as I do.”
The Officer-in-Charge of Base Records, wrote to Constable Butler on 24 July 1922 proposing the:
“hand over of the Victory Medals of the late Private HE Butler and Private G B Butler …also the memorial plaque of the latter….Had this not already been done it would have been recommended a complete set of one of the items for one of the lads be handed over to his mother in an act of grace in view of the fact that she was responsible for the upbringing of both of them”.
Constable Butler had already received the 1914/15 Stars and British War Medals, and the Memorial Plaque for Private Henry Butler, Memorial Scrolls and Brochure “Where the Australians Rest.”
Mrs Butler received a:
•Victory Medal for Gerald Butler on 4 September 1922.
•Victory Medal for Henry Butler on 30 September 1922
•A plaque for Gerald Butler on 2 October 1922
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