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Butters, Harold Charles

Born 1893 Green Ponds Tasmania the son of Robert and Martha Ann Butters (nee Reeve) married a labourer he embarked Sydney 30^th September 1916 on board “HMAT Aeneas” with the 36^th Australian Heavy Artillery Group.

Mrs Harold Butters of Milawa, FitzWilliam Road Vaulcuse Sydney has received the following letter from Lieutenant Colonel Hurst officer in charge of the – Australian Heavy Artillery Group in reference to the death of her husband, who enlisted in Tasmania.

France, 11/7/17 Dear Mrs Butters, -It grieves me very much to have to report the loss of your husband who was killed in action on the afternoon of the 10th inst. An aeroplane bomb exploded in the stables where he had his quarters From what I have been able to gather he was standing in the door of his sleeping quarters when the bomb dropped by a German aeroplane burst and a small fragment hit him right over the heart and death was practically instantaneous The group medical officer was there within a minute and pronounced life extinct. Your husband was buried today in a cemetery  near ---- which is a small village between Dunkirk and Nieunoit, about a mile from the seashore.  My staff will see that a cross is placed at the head of the grave. All the officers N C O's and men who could be spared attended his burial.  The bomb that caused your husband’s death also wounded three other men and two horses and one horse has also died- I am yours, in deepest sympathy, Lieut Col Hurst"

The Mercury 21^st September 1917

Three Tasmanians in the Australian Siege Brigade

Standing left to right- A.M Hall H C Butters Seated A R Huxley

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