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Harry Francis Butler

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Portrait from St Clair Inglis, A. (c1902). Souvenir Album of the first New Zealand Contingent South African War. Auckland, N.Z.: Arthur Cleave & Co.- No known copyright restrictions

Portrait from St Clair Inglis, A. (c1902). Souvenir Album of the first New Zealand Contingent South …

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    • Harry Francis AWMM
    • Birth name Henry Francis Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - Birth records India births and baptisms 1786-1947, family records
  • Surname
    • Butler AWMM
    • Butler Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - Birth records India births and baptisms 1786-1947, family records
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    23 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    30 May 1877 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    30 May 1877 Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - India births and baptisms 1786-1947
  • Place of birth
    Karachi, Bombay, India Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - India births and baptisms 1786-1947
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
    Farmer/Civilian AWMM
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Colonel E.A. Butler (father), Plumton Hall, Bury Street, Edmunds, England AWMM
    • Lieutenant Colonel Edward Arthur Butler (father) Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - the peerage.com, plus family papers, his father was a British collector plus ornithologist...also served in the Imperial army
  • Relationship status
    1908 married Ethel Isabel Harriet Marion Pardoe Public - Lei-Anne - Direct descendant - 5 April 2016 - Births, deaths and marriages New Zealand 1908/6376, family papers

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    South Africa Farmer/Civilian Ministry for Culture and Heritage
    United Kingdom, Europe Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Hospital Diseases , Wounds, South Africa AWMM
    Spent three months in Netley Hospital, Hants, after contracting enteric fever and pleurisy on his way back to England. AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Butler was educated at Fancoulrige School, Suffolk, and had been four years in New Zealand when he joined the First New Zealand Contingent for South Africa.

    Was invalided from Kronstadt on account of eyesight failing.

    After his stint in Hospital Trooper Butler spent two months in Egypt.

    After the war Harry Francis Butler returned to New Zealand where he farmed near Marton in the Rangitikei District. AWMM

Death

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  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Waikumete Cemetery AWMM
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  • Obituary
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Memorials

Memorial

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05 April 2016Lei-AnneHamilton, New ZealandDirect descendant

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