Butler of Baughurst Family Chart no. 22

	William Herbert BUTLER		Lucy Ellen OTTAWAY
	born 4 Feb 1895 at Egham, SRY		born 24 Nov 1893 at Addlestone, SRY
			mar. 13 Jul 1921 at Egham, SRY
	d. 9 May 1971 at Southall MDX, cremated 13 May 1971 Slough Crematorium		d. Dec 1974 at Upton Hosp. Slough, cremated 19 Dec 1974 Slough Crematorium
	Sergeant in Signals (Army), Foreman Engineer (Post Office Telephones)

Their Children

Lucy Evelyn	William Alfred James
born 1922	born 1925
mar. Robert WILDER	mar. Thelma HUDSON
d. 21 Nov 1999 at Upton Hosp. Slough

Additional Information

William joined the Army as a regular soldier on 23 Aug 1911, adding two years to his age to qualify. He served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment from the start of World War I, in Flanders and Northern France. He was with the force which occupied Germany after the Armistice. Once demobbed, he returned to civilian life, but was later called up to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment to deal with riots in the early 1920s. He was later employed as a Post Office Engineer, erecting telegraph poles, and after retirement he turned his hobby, gardening, into a third career, and became a jobbing gardener. [Notes | William's War Diary]

William married Lucy Ellen OTTAWAY daughter of William Frederick OTTAWAY and Mary Ann HARRISON, on 13 Jul 1921 in Egham Surrey. Lucy had been orphaned at the tender age of 11, her father having died when she was seven and her mother four years later in 1904. Whilst living with her married sister in Nottingham, after her Mother died, she was employed as a cigarette worker at the Player's cigarette factory in Nottingham. On her return to Surrey, Lucy was employed as laundry worker before her marriage, and as a cook whilst her children were growing up. [Notes]

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