Born Devizes, Wiltshire, 1874. Son of Charles Butler (1850-1940) and Harriet Sarah Giddings (1854-1933). He served with the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards for eight years.
Married twice. His last wife was Edith Emiliy Butler, married at York on 23 Oct 1907. They lived at 66, Buckingham Street, Hull (1911 Census), 35, Belvoir Street, Hull (Army address) and 6, Windlade Crescent, Perth Street, Hull (War pension address). They had three children, Thomads, Edith and Marjoire. Employed as an engine driver before the war. Described as 5 foot, 8 inches tall, 37-39.5 inch chest,
He enlisted at Hull, on 16/11/1914. Served as a Gunner. in the 2nd/1st Hull Heavy Battery, RGA. Posted to France, on 28/4/1916. Wounded by gas on 12/8/1917. Transferred to the 10th & 16th Yorks and Lancaster Regiment. Discharged on 2/3/1919, with 30% gas posioning in 1917. Served in the army for 4 years and 107 days.
He worked as a crane diver fr the Clarence Flour Mills (1921 census). Died at Hull in 1929 aged 54,