Tasmanian War Casualties

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BUTLER, JOSEPH

Rank Private [Pte]	Service Colonial Military Forces	Place of Death Germiston
Service Number 104	Date of Death 1 June 1900	Cause of Death Died
	Unit First Tas Mounted Infantry Contingent

Born 11^th June 1875 to Richard Butler and Sarah Dilworth of Longford Tasmania, he died of peritonitis June 1, 1900, in the hospital at Germiston. Private Butler was 25 years of age, having been born at Longford, and was a farm labourer. He left Launceston on the 18^th January with a draft of 45 men, and joined the First Contingent at Bloemfontein in April.

A note from Major Wallace Brown to his father states that he participated in the “fighting at Brandfort, Vet River, Zand River and also in a skirmish at the Vaal River, and gains the Johannesburg clasp. He was admitted to the hospital at Germiston on the 30^th May 1900.

According to the dates he died the day after he was admitted into the hospital.

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