| Sir Richard Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1870 |
| Died | April 22, 1935 (aged 64) |
| Place of death | Shawbury,[1] Shropshire |
| Buried at | Hodnet, Shropshire |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant General |
| Commands held |
2nd Bn Lancashire Fusiliers 3rd Infantry Brigade III Corps 2nd Division Western Command |
| Battles/wars |
Second Boer War First World War |
| Awards |
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Lieutenant General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler KCB KCMG (1870–1935) was a British Army general during the First World War.
Military career
Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] Butler was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1890.[3]
He served in the Second Boer War and then became a Brigade Major at Aldershot in 1906.[3] He also served in the Great War, initially as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers[2] and then as Commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade[2] before becoming a Major-General on the General Staff of 1st Army from 1915.[3] He was Deputy Chief of the General Staff on the Western Front from 1916 and then became General Officer Commanding III Corps in February 1918.[4]
After the War he was General Officer Commanding 2nd Division from 1919 to 1923; he became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1924 and retired in 1929.[3]
He ultimately lived at Roden Lodge, Shawbury,[5] in Shropshire, where he died on 22 April 1935. He was buried in the Parish Churchyard at Hodnet, Shropshire.
Family
In 1894 he married Helen Frances Battiscombe and had issue of a son and a daughter.[2]
References
- ↑ "'A Famous General's Death - Sir R.H.K.Butler, of Shawbury'". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 26 April 1935. p. 7..
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Richard Butler at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- ↑ Amiens 1918: The Black Day of the German Army By Alistair McCluskey and Peter Dennis, Page 13 Osprey, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84603-303-2
- ↑ "Who Was Who" 1929-1940 page 202.
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by William Pulteney |
GOC III Corps February 1918–September 1918 |
Succeeded by Post Disbanded |
| Preceded by Cecil Pereira |
General Officer Commanding the 2nd Division 1919–1923 |
Succeeded by Peter Strickland |
| Preceded by Sir John Du Cane |
GOC-in-C Western Command 1924–1928 |
Succeeded by Sir Cecil Romer |
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