Lieutenant Leonard W. Butler

Regiment: Royal Irish Fusiliers
Date published: 28/12/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 20/11/1917
Age at death: 18
Cemetery: Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Plot: II. C. 13.
Information: Lieutenant Leonard W. Butler, Royal Irish Fusiliers, who was killed in action at Fontaine on the 20th November, 1917, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Butler, of 40 Fitzwilliam Place, and was educated at Blackrock College and Downside Abbey School. Lieutenant Butler was only in his 20th year, and his colonel states that he was bravery itself and loved by all his officers and men.