BUTLER, FRANCIS MOURILYAN, Capt., 93rd Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve), 2nd s. of the late Charles Butler, by his wife, Frances E. J.; b. Norbiton, co. Surrey, 27 Oct. 1876: educ. Charterhouse; obtained a commission 3 June, 1915: served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Mont-du-Hibou, near Poel-cappelle, 8 Oct. 1917. Buried in Canada Farm, near Everdinghe. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I have lost a splendidly gallant and capable officer, a good friend and a man of sound judgment, who was mad keen on his work. He never spared himself, and was particularly loved by his men, as he must have been by his horses, for they were his first care. He was in command of his battery at the time,” and a brother officer: “He was always doing almost more than his bit in this hard struggle; the final chapter was indeed characteristic of him, for he was on the drag ropes hauling a gun into action under heavy shell fire.” He m. in New York, 15 Oct. 1902, Josephine Brown, dau. of the late Capt. Joseph J. Lawrence, and had three children: Vera Lawrence, b. 26 July, 1903; Patience Mourilyan, b. 20 April, 1908, and Francis Charles Joseph, b. 24 March, 1915.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5