'Is recommended for gallant conduct and devotion to duty as a linesman in the operations near ZONEBEKE on 26th September, 1917. It is to the linesmen that the credit is due for the excellence of the signal communications throughout the advance. Out on the lines continuously, under the heaviest shell fire and through the fiercest barrages, BUTLER did all that was humanly possible to keep the wires going. On occasions he established "test stations" by "tapping in" along the route and waiting in shell holes. His brave and skilful work calls for very high recommendation.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31
Date: 7 March 1918

Regimental number	2113
Place of birth	Gunbar New South Wales
School	Gunbar Public School, New South Wales
Religion	Presbyterian
Occupation	Labourer
Address	381 High Street, Bendigo, Victoria
Marital status	Single
Age at embarkation	21
Next of kin	Mother, Mrs. C. Butler, 381 High Street, Bendigo, Victoria
Enlistment date	15 April 1915
Rank on enlistment	Private
Unit name	13th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number	23/30/2
Embarkation details	Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 14 June 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll	Private
Unit from Nominal Roll	13th Battalion
Recommendations (Medals and Awards)	Military Medal Recommendation date: 29 September 1917
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular	Awarded the Military Medal.
Fate	Died of wounds 4 July 1918
Place of death or wounding	Hamel, France
Age at death	26.4
Age at death from cemetery records	24
Place of burial	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery (Plot XII, Row A, Grave No. 7), Fouilloy, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial	68
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records	Parents: Henry George and Catherine BUTLER, 133 Thistle Street, Bendigo, Victoria. Born at Gunbar, New South Wales
Medals	Military Medal 'Is recommended for gallant conduct and devotion to duty as a linesman in the operations near ZONEBEKE on 26th September, 1917. It is to the linesmen that the credit is due for the excellence of the signal communications throughout the advance. Out on the lines continuously, under the heaviest shell fire and through the fiercest barrages, BUTLER did all that was humanly possible to keep the wires going. On occasions he established "test stations" by "tapping in" along the route and waiting in shell holes. His brave and skilful work calls for very high recommendation.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31 Date: 7 March 1918
Family/military connections	Brothers: 6718 Pte Henry George BUTLER, 8th Bn, died of wounds, 11 August 1918; 1153A Pte Roy BUTLER, 20th Bn, returned to Australia, 16 January 1919.

William Thomas BUTLER