75395 Major Noel Butler-Madden, MBE, Royal Ulster Rifles

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Does anyone have any information on Noel Butler-Madden who served with the Royal Ulster Rifles in Burma in 1943, he achieved the rant of Temporary Major and was awarded the MBE

 

Can't see anything on findmypast other than a Noel 'C' Butler-Madden married in 1937 Stratford on Avon and there's a death entry in 1964, Oxford for one born in 1913 (also middle initial C).

Somebody with the surname Butler-Madden was in the London Gazette 1917.

 

A file at the National Archives
The National Archives | Search results:noel butler-madden

Lesley

 

He died in Oxford 1964, from Find A Grave
Noel Charles Butler-Madden (1913 - 1964) - Find A Grave Memorial

Not really relevant to your query but his father died in the sinking of the 'Vyner Brooke' in 1942, also from Find A Grave
Louis John Butler-Madden ( - 1942) - Find A Grave Memorial

Butler-Madden – The Palembang and Muntok Internees of WW2

 

Do you mean this handsome chap



Noel Charles Butler-Madden
Birth: 1913
Death: 9 Nov 1964 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
Marriage: Sept 1937 (Sep 1937) - Stratford, Worcestershire
Spouse: Joan L M Park

There is also this:
1945 Burma, Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan
Royal Ulster Rifles - Captain, Temporary Major


Awarded the MBE in 1945


TD

 

Page 793 | Supplement 36928, 6 February 1945 | London Gazette | The Gazette

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 8 FEBRUARY, 1945

To be Additional Members of the Military Division of the said Most Excellent Order:

Captain (temporary Major) Noel Charles Butler-Madden (75395),
The Royal Ulster Rifles (Stratford-on-Avon).


Page 1308 | Supplement 42916, 8 February 1963 | London Gazette | The Gazette

NORTH IRISH BRIGADE
R.U.R.
TERRITORIAL ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS
Capt. (Hon. Maj.) N. C. BUTLER-MADDEN, M.B.E. (75395), having exceeded the age limit, ceases to belong to the T.A. Res. of Offrs., 13th Feb. 1963, retaining the hon. rank of Maj.

 

noel butler-madden who died in oxford 1964 ran a business in Denmark.

 

Is that the sort of information you were after-his life after WW2?

What about the info members have gone to the trouble of finding for you-is this what you wanted as well?

Lesley

 

I am really curious about this 'Burma, Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan'. The reason is that I am writing profiles of WW2 war dead on our local war memorial in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. One of them, Reginald Leonard Critchard is recorded at CWGC as being killed in Burma. But an Ancestry post gives:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/1030/?name=_Critchard
Reginald Leonard Critchard from tree Perry Family Tree
Record information.
Birth date 1920 city, Devon, England
Death date date year city, Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan
And googling Qaraghandy, I found
'He was later killed in
action on 5 April 1944, aged 27, at Qaraghandy in the republic of Kazakhstan, Burma.' with reference to H.A.C. Edelsten MC. What on earth are Qaraghandy and Kazakhstan doing in Burma? Could they be names like the ones that the Army used for fighting in Burma, like Crete West, Gibraltar etc?

 

Hi there, just fell upon this website and I see I’m very late to the conversation but happy to help with any questions regarding my family - Butler-Madden.

Thanks
Jenny