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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 221

(x) British War Medal, 1914-20 (Sjt. H. G. Butler, S.A.N.L.C.), very fine

Henry George Butler lived with his wife Gladys at Thorneycroft Farm, Kei Road, King William's Town, South Africa. He enlisted on 17 October 1914 as a Private in the 2nd Mounted Brigade, South African Horse, and served with the East Africa Expeditionary Force, being slightly wounded in action on 30 August 1916 by a gunshot wound to his right side; exactly a month later, he received another gunshot wound to his shoulder and was invalided home. On his recovery, he was posted to France where he served from 14 June 1917 to 16 December 1917. He was discharged on 31 January 1918.

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