New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

Main Body (Section No.1)

Rank

Sapper

Serial

4/1240

About

Born in Australia

1 September 1887

Parent

Father

Richard Butler

Residence

Hometown

Auckland

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Public Works Department

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Distinguished Conduct Medal

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On the occasion of the explosion of the end of a sap across No Man's Land he showed the greatest gallantry in continuing to open up the sap in spite of heavy shelling. He has done previous fine work of a similar nature.

Death

Died at the age of 51

3 October 1938

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5530 27/0021171, Military Personnel File.

London Gazette, 26 July 1917, p. 7663.

Nominal Roll of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1915. New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company, Government Printer, Wellington, 1916, p. 1.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Matthew Butler (1887-1938)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/91