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BUTTERS, Joseph
(Service number 5/679a)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	29/04/1894	Place of Birth	Oamaru

Enlistment Information

Date	11 October 1914	Age
Address at Enlistment	Sherwood Downs
Occupation	Labourer (Joseph Butters Snr, Sherwood Downs)
Previous Military Experience	8th (SC) Mounted Rifles
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Joseph BUTTERS (father), Sherwood Downs
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Medically examined at Wellingotn on 9 October 1914. Height 5' 8 1/2", dark complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair. Slight deafness, right ear, teeth bad, weight 160lbs.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	13 April 1919	Reason	End of period of engagement

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Labourer

Death

Date	18 October 1962	Age	68 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joseph Butters was the son of Joseph and Jessie (née Bisset) Butters. In 1919 at Chalmers Church, Timaru, he married Violet Louise Walton, the sister of Charles Walton who married joseph's sister in 1920.

Joseph enlisted with the Main Body at the outbreak of war, serving 4 years and 152 days abroad. He embarked for return to New Zealand aboard the SS Hororata on 1 January 1919, being discharged from service following his return to New Zealand in April 1919..

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [12 February 2018]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal affairs) [12 February 2018]; Waimate Cemetery headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [12 February 2018]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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