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)
London Gazette : 23 September 1943 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36180/supplement/4221/data.pdf https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36180/supplement/4226/data.pdf
London Gazette : 11 January 1945 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36886/supplement/315/data.pdf https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36886/supplement/325/data.pdf
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
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.