200106 Patrick Henry Stanley Danvers BUTLER, MID*, 1 Scots Guards

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    Personal Number: 200106
    Rank: Lieutenant
    Name: Honourable Patrick Henry Stanley Danvers     BUTLER, MiD
    Unit: Scots Guards


    London Gazette : 19 August 1941
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35250/supplement/4798/data.pdf
    The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 2nd Aug. 1941: —
    Hon. Patrick Henry Stanley Dawers BUTLER (200106).

    London Gazette : 23 September 1943
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36180/supplement/4226/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North Africa.
    S. G'ds.
    Lt. Hon. P. H. S. D. Butler (200106).

    London Gazette : 11 January 1945
    https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36886/supplement/325/data.pdf
    The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy:—
    Capt. the Hon. P. H. S. D. Butler (200106) (killed in action)
     
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    Casualty
    Captain BUTLER, THE HON. PATRICK HENRY STANLEY DANVERS
    Service Number 200106
    Died 28/02/1944
    1st Bn. Scots Guards
    Son of Henry Cavendish Butler, eighth Earl of Lanesborough, and of Grace Lilian Butler (nee Abdy) Countess of Lanesborough, of Loughborough, Leicestershire.
    INSCRIPTION: HE LEAVES A WHITE UNBROKEN GLORY
    Buried at BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO
    Location: Italy
    Number of casualties: 2025
    Cemetery/memorial reference: V. H. 2.
    See cemetery plan
     
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    From The Scots Guards, Erskine, pg 226,
    Italy:1944 [Anzio Beach-head]

    Battalion Headquarters was in an almost oval glade with the officers' tents at one end, the tents of the Commanding Officer and Major McBarnett being sited to end near two outstandingly tall trees. At about five o'clock the Commanding Officer [Lt-Colonel D.S. Wedderburn, DSO] was talking outside his tent to Major Weir, when a shell came over and landed outside the clearing and in the direction of the road. A few seconds later Major McBarnet appeared with the news that this shell had severely wounded Lieutenant J.W. Stuart-Menteth. On hearing this Captain Ross left his tent and started towards the Commanding Officer. At the same time Lieutenants BUTLER and L.E. Widderson approached the group to announce their success in finding a NAAFI. At that moment two shells landed in the tent area, and, it is thought, hit the tall trees, which turned them into air bursts.

    Major McBarnet, Major Weir, Lieutenant BUTLER, Lieutenant Widderson, and Corporal Wood, the Commanding Officer's driver, were all killed, The Commanding Officer, who had just gone back into his tent, received critical injuries, and Captain Ross and his driver and RQMS Watts were also wounded.

    For a time hopes held out that the Commanding Officer might recover. But on the following evening he grew worse, and shortly after midnight, in the midst of a heavy air-raid, he died.
     
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