BUTLER Eric Busvine

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Jeff Taylor:
Officer Killed, Late of Barnt Green
Second Lieutenant Eric Busvine Butler of the Royal Field Artillery, who has been killed on active service, was the son of Mr Howard B. Butler, Chairman of Charles Joyner and Company Limited and Director of Butlers Limited, of Small Heath, Birmingham, of 57, Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston. Second Lieutenant Butler was formerly of “The Woodlands”, Barnt Green, and later of Stratford-on-Avon.
Second Lieutenant Butler, who was 20 years of age, was educated at the Friends’ School, Bootham, York, and gained Honours in the London Matriculation Examinations. He was on a visit to Switzerland with his mother and sister when war broke out and nine months had elapsed when he returned to England. He joined the Cambridge, Officers Training Corps, and was Gazetted on the 5 October 1915. He went out to France in March and was killed instantly on the 30 September in attempting to extinguish a fire that has broken out in an ammunition dump in the forward area.

Eric Butler has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Tyne Cot Memorial.