Peter Paul Gillen BUTLER

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BUTLER, Peter Paul Gillen

Service Number:	5344
Enlisted:	7 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Happy Valley, South Australia, 8 April 1895
Home Town:	Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Whyalla, South Australia, 15 May 1971, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Interred on 19 May 1971 in the Derrick Gardens, Path 20, Grave 54B. Interment right number 26888 which expires on 19 May 2021
Memorials:	Whyalla WW1 War Memorial

World War 1 Service

7 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5344, 10th Infantry Battalion
11 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 5344, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
11 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 5344, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide
21 Feb 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5344, 10th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wound to the right eye, right arm and chest. Invalided to England on 25 February 1917. Blind in the right eye
22 Oct 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5344, 10th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 4th Military District as medically unfit due to blindness in his right eye as a result of wounding

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of James Patrick Bulter and Mary Jane Butler nee Gillen of Port Pirie West, SA. Brother of Francis James Butler, Thomas Arnold Bulter, Ethel Mary Emery Butler, Elizabeth Gillen Butler and Winifred Blanche Butler.

On 25 January 1912 Peter married Camillia Doxie Hessa Wilsdon in the BHP Company Church, Whyalla, SA

Commenced return to Australia on 22 July 1917for discharge aboard HT Nestor

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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