Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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BUTTON, MONTY EDWARD

Description Studio portrait of Monty Edward Button, of Stanley, Tasmania, wearing the regalia of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), an altruistic fraternal organisation of which he was a member. He is believed to be a Past Grand or Vice Grand of the IOOF in Tasmania. A miner of Mount Carbine, Queensland, he enlisted in Cairns in August 1916 and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses (A38) as 5964 Sapper Edward Button with the December reinforcements of the Tunnelling Companies. He was taken on strength with the 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company in February 1917, and on 6 May 1917, he received gun shot wounds to his legs and he died of these wounds, aged 37.

Word was received in Stanley on Monday of the death in France of Sapper Monty Button. The deceased soldier enlisted with the Miners’ Corps in Queensland. He was well known along the North West Coast for several years being overseer at Stanley for the Van Diemen’s Land Company. He was a past Grand Master of the Independent Order of Oddfellows in Tasmania and also a member of the Stanley Brass Band for many years. His widowed mother resides at Stanley

The Weekly Courier 17^th May 1917

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