Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Robert Thomas Butler

Ancestor's date of birth: Not stated

Ancestor's date of death: 03/11/1951

Cause of Death: heart attack

Service Number: 328

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Queensland

Unit: 4^th Queensland Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: 486

Contingent: Fourth Queensland

Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 18/05/1900

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with OFS, TVL and SA01 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: serve country

Details of service in war: June 1900 - June 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Become a farmer in the Tweed valley NSW.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Sean Michael Butler, Tyalgum NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grandson

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