Service number | 304 |
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Ranks Held | Lieutenant, Private |
Birth Date | 1894-01-19 |
Birth Place | Australia: Tasmania, Hobart, Bellerive |
Death Date | 1924-04-30 |
Death Place | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Final Rank | Lieutenant |
Unit | 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment |
Places | |
Conflict/Operation | First World War, 1914-1918 |
Gazettes |
Worth Family Papers - Papers of Joan Worth in |
Lieutenant John Herbert Butler
Rolls
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Honours and Awards (Recommendation):
- Unit
- 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment
- Conflict
- First World War, 1914-1918
- Rank
- Private
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Honours and Awards (Recommendation):
- Unit
- 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment
- Conflict
- First World War, 1914-1918
- Rank
- Private
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Honours and Awards (Recommendation):
- Unit
- 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment
- Conflict
- First World War, 1914-1918
- Rank
- Private
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First World War Embarkation Roll:
- Conflict
- First World War, 1914-1918
- Rank
- Private
Timeline
Date of birth | 19 January 1894 | |
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Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) | 19 August 1914 | Enlisted as a trooper in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment and served at Gallipoli. |
Date of embarkation | 24 September 1914 | |
Date of recommendation honour or award | 1916 | |
Date of recommendation honour or award | 1916 | |
Date of recommendation honour or award | 1916 | |
Other | 1917-01 | Transferred to the Australian Flying Corps and trained as a pilot. |
Date commissioned | 1917-06 | Received his commission and served in the Middle East with 1 Squadron AFC. |
Date returned to Australia | 28 April 1918 | Returned to Australia after becoming ill. |
Other | 1919 | Continued to fly a BE2e in a commercial capacity for the Perdriau Rubber Company. It is claimed that he was the first to fly from Brisbane to Sydney in one day, and the first person to fly over Sydney at night. |
Date of death | 30 April 1924 | He died at the age of thirty from lymphatic leukaemia and was buried at Waverley Cemetery after a military funeral. His comrades in the AFC erected a memorial over the foot of his grave, consisting of iron propellor blades formed into a cross. |
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