Richard Patrick Butler
I mate atu i te 1 Oct 1916
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 10/1429 AWMM
- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
E pā ana ki
- Taitara
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- Ngā ingoa tuatahi
- Richard Patrick AWMM
- Ingoa whānau
- Butler AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Ingoa kārangaranga
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- Nama Hōia
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- Ira tangata
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Pono
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Mātātuhi
Ngā tuhinga
Te whānautanga
- Whānautanga mai
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- Rā i whānau mai ai
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- Wāhi Whānau
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- Tuhinga mō te whānautanga
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- Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga
- Unknown AWMM Care of Mr Purser, Raetihi, New Zealand AWMM
- Mahi whai muri i te pakanga
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- Uri kiritahi
- J. Butler (father), Papakura, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna
- Pre 14 Feb 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
Ngā pakanga me ngā whawhai
- Pakanga
- World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
- Kauhanga riri
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- Te Ope o Tū / te peka
- Army AWMM
- Nama Hōia
- WWI 10/1429 AWMM
- Urunga ki te ope taua
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- Whakapikinga / Tukunga / Whakawhitinga
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Ngā tohu taumata rau ope taua
- Mētara me ngā Tohu
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Te Whakangungu me te Urunga atu
- Whakangungu ope taua
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Te urunga
- WW1 Unknown AWMM Wellington AWMM
- Pakeke i te whakaurunga
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- Mahi i mua i te ekenga waka
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Te maha o ngā ekenga waka
- Taipitopito ekenga waka
- WW1 14 Feb 1915-26 Mar 1915 AWMM from Wellington AWMM to Suez AWMM
HMNZT 17 or HMNZT 18 or HMNZT 19 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM 3rd Reinforcements AWMM
Mauhere o te pakanga
- Kia mau ki ngā taipitopito
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- Ngā rā i mauherehia ai
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- Rā i puta ai
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- Ngā kōrero mō te puta i te mauhere pakanga
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- Te rā i whakahokia atu ngā hōia i mauherehia ai
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- Nama motuhake mō te mauhere pakanga
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Whakapapa hauora
- Tuhinga hauora
- Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga e mōhiotia ana
- Te tūnga whakamutunga
- WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Regiment AWMM - Te tūnga whakamutunga
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Kōrero taurongo
- Remembered on the Papakura - Karaka War Memorial
Next of Kin: Mr J. Butler, Papakura, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM - James Butler travelled from Queens County, Ireland to New Zealand in the 1860’s. Upon arrival he walked to Clevedon and after working there for some time, he took up land at Hunua. James married Annie, who had also come from Ireland to New Zealand in the 1860’s.
Richard Patrick Butler was born at Hunua in 1883.
In 1914 at the time of his enlistment, Richard was single and in his early thirties working as a ‘bush feller’ in Raetihi. He was 5ft 9 ½ inches and weighed 162 lbs with a fair complexion, brown hair and eyes.
Early in 1915 Richard embarked for Suez, Egypt, joining the Wellington Regiment in May to fight at the Dardanelles.
The assault launched on the area in August 1915 followed the unsuccessful Gallipoli campaign in April. It was here that Richard suffered a gunshot wound in the side on the 8th August and was shipped out on the Aquitania, a Cunard liner chartered by the British government as a troop carrier. Admitted to the military hospital in Southampton, England on the 23rd August, he would not return to active duty until March 1916.
In late January 1916 he was discharged from the hospital on furlough; by March 13th he had rejoined the 2nd Battalion in Ismailia. In early April he left Egypt from Alexandria, bound for France on the troop carrier ‘Llandovery Castle’.
Richard was admitted to the New Zealand Field Ambulance on the 6th June, this time with a gunshot wound to the forehead, but after a few days he was discharged back to his unit.
On the first of October 1916, during an advance at the Battle of the Somme near Eaucourt l'Abbaye, Richard was seen to be wounded in the leg by Private Mudgway.
Lance Corporal Colquhoun stated “I was with him at the time and saw him crawl into a shell hole. We had advanced about 300 yards when he was wounded.”
This was the last time Richard was seen alive. He was not reported to have been carried out, and was listed as wounded and missing.
Initially it was thought he was a prisoner of war, but this was later discounted in an enquiry held in January 1917.
“24/1428 Pte Mudgway C L states on the Ist October near Eaucourt L’Abby during the advance and before we got to the objective, I saw Pte Butler RP 10/ 1429 receive a wound. I was some distance off at the time but am certain it was Pte Butler RP”
“10/ 2560 L/Cpl Colquhoun RA states that on the 1st October near Eaucourt L’Abbey during the advance and before we got to objective Pte Butler was wounded in the leg, I was with him at the time and saw him crawl into a shell hole. We had advanced about 300 yards when he was wounded. ….this was the last he saw of Pte Butler and did not hear of him being carried out.”
In April 1917 a court of enquiry officially listed Richard as killed in action on 1st October 1916.Public - Toni - Researcher - 25 April 2022 - Military Personnel Records
OBITUARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19652, 2 June 1927, Page 12
- Remembered on the Papakura - Karaka War Memorial
Te matenga
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- 1 Oct 1916 AWMM
Somme AWMM - Rā i mate ai
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- Pakeke i te matenga
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- Wāhi Mate
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- Te momo matenga
- Killed in Action AWMM
- Tuhipoka mō te matenga
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- Urupā
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- Ingoa o te urupā
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- Tohutoro kōhatu urupā
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- Pānui Matenga
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- Ingoa maumaharatanga
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- Tohutoro maumaharatanga
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Maumaharatanga
- Ingoa maumaharatanga
- Papakura - Karaka War Memorial, Great South Road, Papakura, New Zealand AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
Mea e whai hononga ai
Tangata Ope Tauā
Ngā mātāwai
- Hononga ki waho
- Military personnel file
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21890713
Further Reference - A Street Near You record
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1462968/-
Further Reference - Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1462968
Further Reference - New Zealand War Graves Trust
https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
Further Reference
- Military personnel file
- Ngā tuhinga
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
Page No: 99 - Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
Vol. 3: Includes portrait - The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
- Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
- New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
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