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Harrow School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
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Richard Butler
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Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Butler was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1890. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 6 April 1892, and to Captain on 11 October 1899. He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa, and took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including the Battles of Spion Kop (January 1900), Vaal Krantz and Tugela Heights (February 1900).
Following which he served in the Transvaal (June 1900), and in Orange River Colony (June 1900).
He was again seconded for service in South Africa in April 1902, when he was appointed in command of the 10th Regiment Mounted Infantry. Following his return from South Africa, he became a Brigade Major at Aldershot in 1906.
He also served in the Great War, initially as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers and then as Commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade before becoming a Major-General on the General Staff of 1st Army from 1915. He was Deputy Chief of the General Staff on the Western Front from 1916 and then became General Officer Commanding III Corps in February 1918.
After the War he was General Officer Commanding 2nd Division from 1919 to 1923.
He became General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command in 1924 and retired in 1929. He ultimately lived at Roden Lodge, Shawbury, in Shropshire, where he died on 22 April 1935. He was buried in the Parish Churchyard at Hodnet, Shropshire.
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