CAMDEN DISTRICT ROLL OF HONOUR

CAMDEN REMEMBERS Harold Percival BUTLER (Corporal NX55560)

Birth: 26 Jan 1911 Camden NSW Father: Percival Ernest BUTLER (29 Nov 1880 - 14 Mar 1959) Mother: Edith Julia HILDER (abt 1876 - 26 Sep 1943) Marriage: Nita Doreen TAPLIN, 12 Sep 1936 Camden NSW Occupation: Storekeeper Enlisted: 1 Jul 1940 Paddington NSW Residence: Glebe NSW Next of Kin: Nita Butler Unit : 2/13 Australian Infantry Battalion                    Death: 25 Oct 1942 Egypt                    Cemetery: War Cemetery El Alamein                    Honours: 24 Jun 1943 Mentioned in Dispatches, London Gazette                    Roll of Hon: Soldiers' Memorial Macarthur Park Camden                    Relatives: Gordon Hilder Butler (Corporal NX91426. Brother b.1909                                     Camden NSW) Photo courtesy Camden Historical Society (from Joyce Thorn scrapbook) Corporal Harold Percival BUTLER took part in the first offensive in Libya and went through the Tobruk seige where he was a stretcher-bearer for ten months. Returning to Palestine and Syria, he was transferred to Egypt where he took part in campaigns there as Acting Sergeant at a regimental aid post. He was killed in action on 25 Oct 1942 in Egypt age 31.

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