Captain John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler

King's Royal Rifle Corps
Attached Pioneer Company, Gold Coast

Born: 20 December 1888 at Berkeley, Glos.

Died: 5 September 1916 near Matombo, German East Africa.

Buried: Where he fell on Kikirunga Hill, Morogoro Cemetery, Tanzania.
Plot 111, Row C, Grave 43. 
Headstone.

Commissioned: February 1907.

CITATION

For most conspicuous bravery in the Cameroons, West Africa. On the 17th November 1914, with a party of thirteen men, he went into the thick bush and at once attacked the enemy, in strength about one hundred, including several Europeans, defeated them and captured their machine gun and many loads of ammunition. On the 27th December 1914, when on patrol duty with a few men, he swam the Ekaw River, which was held by the enemy, alone and in the face of brisk fire completed his reconnaissance on the further bank and returned in safety. Two of his men were wounded while he was actually in the water.