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VC239 Thomas Adair Butler
BORN 12 February 1836
DIED 17 May 1901 AGE 65
VC Won 9 March 1858 AGE 22
Place VC Won Goomtee River, Lucknow
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Thomas Adair Butler No.
VC Issue No. 239 Awards VC
Regiment 1st European Bengal Fusiliers
Later Royal Munster Fusiliers
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Soberton, Hampshire, England
Place Of Death Lyndale, Camberley, Surrey, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Michael's Churchyard, London Road, Camberley, Surrey, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 6 May 1859
VC Presented 08 June 1859 by Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, St Michael's Churchyard, London Road, Camberley, Surrey
P Named on 1st European Bengal Fusiliers (Royal Munster Fusiliers) Memorial at Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
By The Way…
The regiment, The 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, was a private army of the East India Company, transferred into the British army after the mutiny.
VC Held By
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey, England
