Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Edmund Charles Butler
Ancestor's date of birth: 06/1881
Ancestor's date of death: 24/02/1945
Cause of Death: heart
Service Number: 208
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Kerang
Unit: 6th Australian Commonwealth Horse (Vic)
Rank attained in Boer War: LCPL, Date Effective: 1902?
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Select No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 331
Contingent: Third Australian.
Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 16/05/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Awards/Decorations: None from the Boer War.
Personal Characteristics: A farmer from Lake Bogga. Height 164 cm.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: His unit arrived after the war ended
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 7 August 1902 on the Britannic. Was a farmer and Dandenong Councillor.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Brian Maurice Giersch, Green Point NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: grandson
