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VC556 John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler
BORN 20 December 1888
DIED 5 September 1916 AGE 27
VC Won 17 November & 27 December 1914 AGE 25
Place VC Won The Cameroons, West Africa (German Colonies)
War/Campaign First World War 1914
Name John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler No.
VC Issue No. 556 Awards VC DSO
Regiment King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd Battalion attached to Pioneer Company, Gold Coast Regiment, West African Frontier Force
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th Battalions The Rifles
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death Kikirunga Hill, near Matombo, German East Africa (now Tanzania)
Buried/Location Ashes Morogoro Cemetery, Tanganyika, 100 miles west of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot III, Row C, Grave 43
Gazetted 23 August 1915
VC Presented 24 August 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Morogoro Cemetery, Tanganyika, 100 miles west of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
P Named on Cirencester War Memorial, Cirencester Parish Church, Gloucestershire
P Named on war memorial, Minster Church of St Mary, Berkley, Gloucestershire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Market Place, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
P Named on war memorial, St Lawrence Church, Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire
P Memorial plaque, St Lawrence Church, Wyck Rissington, Gloucestershire
P Named on memorials, Wellington College, Crowthorne Berkshire
P Named on memorial, Memorial Chapel, Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on KRRC memorial, Winchester Cathedrel, Hampshire
P Named on memorial gates, Constitution Hill, London
Named on Cenotaph, Kumasi, Ghana
By The Way…
He was originally buried were he fell, but later reburied in Morogoro Cemetery, Tanzania
VC Held By
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Thank you to Jill Shepherd, librarian and archivist at Wellington College
