Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Walter Butler
Ancestor's date of birth: 27/01/1879
Ancestor's date of death: 10/06/1964
Cause of Death: Heart Disease
Service Number: 453
Colony or State of enlistment: WA Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 6th Western Australian Mounted Infantry
Rank attained in Boer War: LCPL, Date Effective: 01/01/19
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 426
Contingent: 6th Mounted Infantry
Ship: Ulstermore, Date of Sailing: 10/04/1901
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: King's South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 clasps
Personal Characteristics: Very Good Character, this was stated on his discharge paper.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: May 1901 - April 1902 in east Transvaal under Walter Kitchener including defeat at Brakpan where five dead (16 May 1901); amalgamated with 5th WA Mounted Infantry under Major J. R. Royston.
Service and life after the Boer War: He spent his childhood in a convent at Geelong Victoria due to the death of his mother. In later life he hitchicked across to Western Australia perhaps looking for gold.He enlisted while in W.A.Later he married in W.A. and then returned to Victoria with his wife and started his family. He worked at Carlton Brewery where he remained until retirement.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Dael Rosemary Parry, Cooranbong NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter
