Butler B Lt Col DSO Royal Field Artillery
Source : The Sphere 7th Dec 1918
Butler B A B Lt Col DSO + Bar Royal Field Artillery
BUTLER, BERNARD ARNOLD BARRINGTON, D.S.O. and Bar, Lieut.-Col., Royal Field Artillery, 8. of the late Spencer P. Butler, Conveyancing Counsel, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Nicholas Kendall; b. Harrow, co. Middlesex, 6 May, 1878; educ. Haileybury, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (passing out 2nd on Gunners’ List); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Dec. 1807 promoted Lieut. 23 Dee. 1900, Capt. 23 Jan. 1905, Major 30 Oct. 1914 and Temporary Lieut. Col. in March, 1915; served nine years in India from 1899, and subsequently served at Edinburgh and Bordon, and then, after passing the Gunnery Staff Course, was appointed Instructor of Gunnery at Trawsfynedd; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1914, taking part in the engagements on the Aisne, at Ypres, Hooge, Vimy Ridge, on the Somme, at Arras, Menin Road, Kemmel and Passchendaele, and died near Le Catean 23 Oct. 1918, from wounds received in action the same day. Burled at Forrest, near Le Catean. He was five times mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, and F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, being also awarded the Distinguished Service Order in Jan. 1917, and a Bar to the same in March, 1918, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a keen sportsman, and when in India spent much of his leave shooting in Chambra and Baltistan. He also obtained the Certificate of the Royal Geographical Society for Surveying and Practical Astronomy. He m. in London, 24 July, 1905, Winifred (The Turret House, Wadhurst, co. Sussex), dau, of the late Right Hon. Arthur Cohen, K.C., and had a son, Anthony Bernard, b. 20 Sept. 1907.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5