Bernard Arnold Barrington Butler (1878 - 1918)

Born 6 May 1878 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Winifred Emmeline (Cohen) Butler — married 24 Jul 1905 in Marylebone, London, England, United Kingdom

Died 23 Oct 1918 at age 40 in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France

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Biography

Bernard was born in 1878. He was the son of Spencer Butler and Mary Kendall. He was educated at Haileybury School and then the Royal military Academy in Woolwich, passing out second on Gunners' List. He served nine years in India starting in 1899 and spent his leave shooting in Chambra and Baltistan. In 1905 he married Winifred Cohen, from Wadhurst in Sussex. They had a son, Anthony Bernard Butler on 20 Sept 1907. When Bernard returned from India fulltime to England in 1908 he served in Edinburgh and Bordon and then after passing the Gunnery Staff Course was appointed Instructor of the Gunnery at Trawsfynedd.

He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept 1914 taking part in the engagements on the Aisne, at Ypres, Hooge, Vimy Ridge, on the Somme , at Arras, Menin Road, Kemmel and Passchendaele. He died near Le Cateau on 23 Oct 1918 from wounds received in action the same day. He was buried at Forrest, near Le Cateau. He was five times mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French and Sir Douglas Haig. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in Jan 1917 and a Bar to this order in March 1918 for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

Sources

• De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919. Vol 5.
• https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/42048311/person/19721705286/facts